Prisoners (Solitary Confinement)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Home Department – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 9 July 1964.

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Photo of Mr Eric Lubbock Mr Eric Lubbock , Orpington 12:00, 9 July 1964

There have been other cases in which men sentenced to more than four years have been kept in solitary confinement for more than six weeks. Is not the right hon. Gentleman aware that three men were released from solitary confinement as soon as representations were made to that effect by their solicitors?