§ MR. DILLONI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether Mr. Michael Delaney and other prisoners now in Castlebar Gaol, undergoing sentences inflicted by specially constituted courts, will be allowed freely to write and receive letters concerned with their private business.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThese prisoners are subject to the same rules as other local convicted prisoners in respect of writing and receiving letters on private business. If prisoners express a desire to write letters on business or family affairs of an urgent nature, they will be permitted to do so by the Governor.
§ CAPTAIN DONELANAre these prisoners treated as contrition criminals?
§ MR. WYNDHAMI do not think the words used by the hon. Member exactly represent the case. They are treated as persons condemned to imprisonment with or without hard labour, as the case may be.