§ 73. Mrs. Stonehouseasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies for what reasons elected members of the Kenya Legislative Council have been refused permission to visit Kenya prisons and detention camps, in view of the fact that journalists and others have been able to make such visits; and whether he will now allow them to visit these prisons and detention camps.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThese visits are at the discretion of the officers in charge of prisons and camps, or of the Commissioner of Prisons. There have been a number of visits by elected members of the Legislative Council to prisons in the last year. Visits to emergency detention camps, however, are not at present allowed because of the risk of their having an adverse effect on the rehabilitation of the remaining detainees.