§ MR. DILLON(for Mr. SHEEHY) (Galway, S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether, according to Prison Rules, prisoners should be exercised twice daily for an hour each time; whether Mr. John Roche, a prisoner now in Galway Gaol, is obliged to take his two hours daily exercise altogether; and, whether the only excuse for this treatment is that the prison is short handed for warders?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR) (Manchester, E.)The General Prisons Board inform me there is nothing in the Prison Rules requiring that prisoners shall be exercised twice daily. The requirement is that prisoners shall each receive two hours' exercise in 1184 the day; but whether in one period or otherwise is left to the discretion of the Governor. The Governor of Galway Prison reports it is not the case that the prisoner in question (John Roche) is obliged to take his two hours' daily exercise in one period. He has, on the contrary, received it daily (with the exception of the two days immediately following his admission to prison on the 4th of April) in two periods, morning and afternoon.