§ MR. REDMONDasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If it is a fact that the prisoners detained under the Coercion Act in Monaghan Gaol are locked in solitary confinement within their cells for eighteen out of every twenty-four hours; whether this regulation exists in other gaols; and, whether its rigid enforcement is necessary for the safe custody of the prisoners?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. W. M. JOHNSON) (for Mr. W. E. FORSTER)In every prison in which prisoners are detained under the Protection of Person and Property Act they are locked within their cells for 18 hours out of the 24 under the regulations made pursuant to the Act, and which were laid before Parliament.