DOORS NOT LOCKED
: «. A.R.P. RULES IN PRISON NO TROUBLE EXPERIENCED (From The Guardian's London Correspondent) LONDON, October 7. Six hundred convicts at Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, spend their nights behind unlocked cell doors. The change has been made so that they may get to air-raid shelt-
ers without delay. Gates at entrances to blocks of cells are also kept unlocked. Officers constantly patrol inside and outside. So far there has been !no trouble from this relaxation of regulations. But a strong military picket is kept ready at neighbouring barracks to help the prison staff if necessary. The convicts have been busy for some weeks completing A.R.P. arrangements inside the prison. Now there is ample accommodation in underground shelters for the staff' and prisoners. Seventy young prisoners who are getting towards the end of their terms are expected to be released almost immediately as they have volunteered to join the fighting services. A convict similarly released from Parkhurst during the Great War won the V.C.
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 88, 7 November 1939, Page 5
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165DOORS NOT LOCKED Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 88, 7 November 1939, Page 5
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