§ MR. PICKERSGILLI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether in any English prison the practice obtains of punishing warders for offences against discipline by placing them on what is called special probation, namely, requiring them to be on duty seven days a week for three months consecutively, without any time off even on Sundays?
§ SIR MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEYIn the event of serious misconduct an officer may be placed on special probation for a period varying from one to three months according to the gravity of the offence; and during that period he forfeits all privileges in the way of leave, with the one exception that he is allowed an alternate Sunday off duty.