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Mr. Redmond
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department on how many occasions since January 1990 inmates at Her Majesty's Prison, Holloway, have been (a) detained in a strip cell and (b) restrained by body belts for (i) medical or (ii) non-medical purposes. [8440]
Miss Widdecombe
Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the temporary Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.
Letter from Richard Tilt to Mr. Martin Redmond, dated 22 January 1996:
The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the number of occasions inmates at Holloway prison have been detained in a strip cell and restrained by bodybelts for medical or non-medical purposes.
The number of occasions since January 1990 that prisoners have been restrained are shown in the attached tables.
Special cell
| |
Year
| Non-medical
|
1990 | 9 |
1991 | 1 |
1992 | 13 |
1993 | 13 |
1994 | 17 |
1995 | 14 |
Body belt
| ||
Year
| Medical
| Non-medical
|
1990 | 0 | 0 |
1991 | 0 | 0 |
1992 | 0 | 0 |
1993 | 0 | 0 |
1994 | 0 | 1 |
1995 | 1 | 1 |