§ 39. Mr. BYRNEasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Irish prisoners at Lewes are still existing on food supplied to criminals; if they are sleeping on plank beds; if they wear convict garb; if any requests have been received from America for their release; and if he will say what the Government proposals are for the future as regards these men?
§ Sir G. CAVEThe prisoners at Lewes are receiving food on the dietary scale to which they are entitled; they sleep on mattressfts; they wear the clothing prescribed by the prison rules. I have received no application from America with regard to these prisoners.