A.R.P. IN PRISON
CELL DOORS UNLOCKED. LONDON, October 7. Six hundred convicts of Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, spend their nights behind unlocked cell doors. The change Ims been made so that they | may get to air-raid shelters without dopay. Gates at entrances to blocks of 1 cells are still 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 week’s completing A.R.P, arrangements inside the prison. Now there is ample accommodation in un(•er:’,round shelters for the staff and prisoners.
Seventy young prisoners who- are gelling towards the eud 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 Avon the V.C.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 3 November 1939, Page 4
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