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In November 1917, the supervisor of the workhouse ordered the guards to brutalise the suffragists. They dragged, beat, choked and pinched the women. One was left with her hands chained over her head all night. Another was slammed into the edge of her bed so hard her cellmate thought she was dead.

Media reports of the brutalisation created public pressure, and by the end of November all the suffragist women had been released.
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