HC Deb 24 June 1926 vol 197 c522
10. Mr. SHEPHERD

asked the Homo Secretary whether prison warders now use firearms or any other lethal weapon?

Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKS

At the convict prisons of Parkhurst and Dartmoor, and at the Camp Hill Preventive Detention Prison, at all of which parties of prisoners are employed outside the walls, some of the officers, when on duty outside the walls, are armed with carbines. Apart from these, prison officers carry no weapons except staves.