§ Mr. Prescottasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will make a statement on his Department's policy and action on the recommendations of the Report of the Working Party on Adjudication Procedures in Prisons.
210Wwere not accepted. Four of these related to security measures, including the arming of staff, and one was a recommendation for an experiment with conjugal visits. The sixth was a recommendation to set up an independent committee to examine the treatment of psychopaths and the relationship between the prison system and the special hospitals. The Committee on Mentally Abnormal Offenders—the Butler Committee—has now examined this matter, amongst others. That committee's recommendations are under consideration.
The Radzinowicz Committee's principal recommendation was that high-securityrisk prisoners serving long sentences should be dispersed among selected prisons. That recommendation was accepted, and it is our intention to continue with the dispersal policy.
§ Mr. Prescottasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many research projects have been commissioned since the Radzinowicz Report; and how many are concerned with the problem of long-term prisoners.
§ Mr. JohnSince the publication of the Radzinowicz Report in April 1968, 211 research projects have been commissioned by the Prison Department. Of these, 28 have been concerned with long-term prisoners.