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Sensational Reports of Prison Trouble (British official Wireless.) Rugby, April 19. IClje House of Commons at question time received with sympathetic cheers a condemnation by the Secretary of State for Home Affairs, Sir John Simon, of sensational and unfounded reports of a disturbance at Dartmoor and in other prisons, which in some cases had been circulated after an official denial had been issued. Sir John gave a detailed account of minor breaches of discipline which occurred earlier this month at Dartmoor in connection with food, and stated categorically that there was no violence of any kind and no truth whatever in a suggestion that it had been found necessary to reinforce th.e staff or to take special measures to preserve discipline. As to Wandsworth prison. about which a sensational and misleading statement was put into circulation on Saturday, there was no unrest there, he said. Unfounded reports of this kind, Sir John Simon declared, alarmed the prisoners’ relatives, caused anxiety in the country, and were a definite public mischief.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 175, 21 April 1937, Page 11
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