§ MR. SEXTONI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether James Murphy, now in Mountjoy Convict Prison, who was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude at the Winter Assizes of 1883 (Carrick-on-Shannon), is now entitled, according to the ordinary practice, to be released?
§ MR. MADDEN(who replied) said: The General Prisons Board report that the convict referred to is undergoing a sentence of ten years' penal servitude imposed in December, 1884. In addition to this time he is also liable to serve a further period of 668 days, representing the remainder of a former sentence of penal servitude. Even if he had earned full marks (which he has not done), he could not become eligible for release under the rules for more than 18 months from the present time.
§ MR. SEXTONI beg to ask whether a certain time is not taken off every 572 year for good conduct, and whether in that case this man ought not now to be liberated?
§ MR. MADDENI have no doubt the proper calculation was made by the prison authorities, and I gather from their Report that the time has not yet expired.