HC Deb 29 April 1887 vol 314 cc350-1
MR. FINUCANE (Limerick, E.)

asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If his attention has been directed to a paragraph in The Freeman's Journal of last Tuesday, which stated that— The Rev. Matthew Ryan was visited on the previous day by his brother and a Mr. Rafferty, Dublin, to whom he presented his photograph, which the Governor of the gaol detained; and, whether the Prison Regulations enable a Governor to do this; and, if so, will the Government consider the desirability of relaxing these rules in the case of first-class misdemeanants?

THE PARLIAMENTARY UNDER SECRETARY (Colonel KING-HARMAN) (Kent, Isle of Thanet)

(who replied) said: The ordinary Rules of the Prison were observed on the occasion referred to. It is not intended to make any alterations in those relating to first class misdemeanants.

MR. T. M. HEALY (Longford, N.)

But is the statement true that the photographs were detained?

COLONEL KING-HARMAN

I understand that the Rules of the prison are against any photograph or communication of that nature being passed between prisoners and visitors.