§ MR. HUGH LAWI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the wives, families, and female servants of certain prison officials in Ireland are compelled, by reason of the situation of the quarters provided by the Prisons Board, to reside within the walls of the prison for male convicts at Maryborough; and whether the wives, families and female servants of corresponding officials in the English and Scottish services are required, in any cases, to reside within the walls of male convict prisons in those countries.
MR. BRYCEThe Governors of all Irish Prisons are required to reside within the precincts of the prisons, and are allowed to have their wives, families, and female servants living with them. In Maryborough Convict Prison, both the governor and the deputy-governor are provided with suitable houses within the prison walls, and no complaint has ever been received from them on the subject of their residence. I understand chat in England the quarters of the prison officers are not situated within the prison walls at any of the convict prisons, but in the case of certain of the local prisons the governor's quarters are within the prison walls.