§ MR. SEXTON (Belfast, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what recommendations of the Visitors who held the recent inquiry at Chatham Convict Prison have been adopted; and what recommendations, if any, have not been acted upon by the Executive?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. MATTHEWS,) Birmingham, E.Some of the recommendations of the Committee were already the practice of the prison. The others have all been acted upon by the Prison Board, except that they have not thought it necessary to issue any order with respect to the recommendation contained in paragraph 45 of the Report, as they considered the complaint as to the gates outside their cells not being un- 1352 locked for the admission of breakfast and tea to be of a trivial nature.
§ MR. SEXTONHas it not been recommended that Durban, one of the persons mentioned in the Report, should be reinstated?
§ MR. A. O'CONNOR (Donegal, E.)Was not this man Durban degraded and removed from his position on the recommendation of the officials of the prison? Is it the case that he is now employed in compounding medicines, and, among others, for the prisoner Daly?
§ MR. MATTHEWSI must ask for notice of those questions.