HC Deb 07 May 1991 vol 190 c430W
Mr. McNamara

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will detail the number of strip searches made on female persons in Her Majesty's prison Maghaberry monthly since May 1990, giving the number of persons involved and the number of times each person was searched; if any prison contraband, smuggled item, or illegal correspondence was discovered in any search, indicating which items; in how many cases prisoners refused to be searched and had to be restrained while the search was being conducted; and what were the reasons for the search.

Dr. Mawhinney

Details of the number of, and reasons for, strip searches of female prisoners in Her Majesty's prison Maghaberry from December 1989 to May 1990 were provided on 4 July 1990, at columns601–4. The statistics from June 1990 to March 1991 are as follows:

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