Special Secure Units

HC Deb 21 May 1997 vol 294 c77W

Mr. McNamara

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will review the policy under which inmates in prison special secure units may only receive visits if they are physically separated from their visitors by a glass screen. [184]

Ms Joyce Quin

The policy of mandatory closed visits for exceptional risk prisoners will be kept under review.

Mr. McNamara

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what action he proposes to take in respect of the March 1997 Amnesty International report relating to conditions in the special secure units at HMP Full Sutton, HMP Belmarsh and HMP Whitemoor. [309]

Ms Quin

Ministers will consider the Amnesty International report and a response will be submitted in due course.