HC Deb 05 March 1931 vol 249 cc576-7
34. Sir B. FALLE

asked the Home Secretary if he can say if any religious ministrations or synagogue service is provided for Jewish prisoners in His Majesty's prisons generally; and, if not, if prisoners of Jewish faith can be grouped in one or more prisons so as to allow of such service to be rendered at a minimum cost to the State?

Mr. CLYNES

Arrangements are made in consultation with the Jewish religious authorities for religious ministration for Jewish prisoners, and if at any prison difficulty is being experienced I should be glad to confer with those authorities. Any general plan of grouping Jewish prisoners of varying ages and different classes in the same prison would be inconsistent with the general schemes of classification adopted for the purpose of the treatment of prisoners.

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