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Prisons (Mechanical Restraints)

Volume 270: debated on Monday 22 January 1996

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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]

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

19909
19911
199213
199313
199417
199514

Body belt

Year

Medical

Non-medical

199000
199100
199200
199300
199401
199511