§ Mr. Cartwrightasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many allegations of assault have been made against staff at Lincoln prison during the past 12 months; how many prisoners have been involved; how many allegations have been investigated; and with what result.
§ Mr. HurdThere have been nine allegations of assaults by staff on prisoners. Three of these were in general terms; the remaining six involved six named prisoners. It has been impossible to investigate the three general allegations. One of the six allegations involving named prisoners has been withdrawn and it has been impossible to investigate two others, in which no officer was identified.
In the remaining three cases the allegation was found to be unsubstantiated. In two of these, the prisoner has 125W been charged with making a false and malicious allegation. One of these charges is still outstanding: in the other case the prisoner was awarded 56 days forfeiture of remission.