Prison reform predicted
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON, Nov. 29.
Solitary confinement in British prisons will no longer meant total isolation under changes likely to be announced soon, says the “Sunday Telegraph.” The Home Secretary (Mr Reginald Maudling) is understood to have accepted, in principle, a recommendation that prisoners in “solitary” should be allowed visitors, and that they should also have a wider choice of reading material, and. not only religious and moral tracts. The recommendations came from a private conference of senior Home Office officials and prison governors and officers. ■ .
The "Sunday Telegraph” says that Mr Maudling has also agreed that clothes removed from prisoners in a search should be returned to them, so that they do not suffer rite humiliation of being left in singlet and underpants; and that the old-style padded cell for troublesome inmates should be replaced by special punishment cells. But he has yet to decide whether the bread-and-water diet should be abolished.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32777, 30 November 1971, Page 15
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