§ Mr. Kilroy-Silkasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if, in view of the requirement in the prison rules that prisoners should be assisted to keep in touch with their relatives, he will consider introducing a policy by which long-term prisoners are imprisoned in prisons accessible to their homes and confine the use of the remote rural establishments for those whose separation from their families will be shorter.
§ Mr. BrittanEvery effort is made to keep prisoners as near as possible to their homes but it would not be practicable to adopt the policy proposed.