HC Deb 07 December 1984 vol 69 c297W
Mr. McNamara

asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland how many strip searches were made of female prisoners in Her Majesty's prison, Armagh, in November; if he will give the number of persons involved and the number of times each person was searched; whether any prison contraband, smuggled item or illegal correspondence was discovered in any search, indicating which items; and in how many cases prisoners refused to be searched and had to be restrained while the search was being concluded.

Mr. Scott

During November 33 strip searches were carried out on 22 female inmates in Her Majesty's prison, Armagh. Individual prisoners were searched the following number of times:

Number of Prisoners Number of Searches in each case
11 2
11 1

No prohibited articles were found during these searches and no prisoner refused to be searched.