Brožová Polednová transferred to a different jailhouse for health reasons

The country’s oldest prisoner, eighty-seven-year-old Ludmila Brožová Polednová who is serving a six year sentence for helping to send democratic politician Milada Horaková to the gallows in the hardline 1950s has been transferred to a jailhouse where she can get better medical care. Polednová, who entered the Plzeň jailhouse on March 19th, has been transferred to Světlá nad Sázavou, which specializes in ill and elderly prisoners. Her appeal for the sentence to be postponed on health grounds was rejected. Brožová Polednová, a former communist prosecutor, is the first and only participant in the Horaková show trial to be brought to justice.