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Inquiry into Prison Disturbances April 1990. Read indexed debates, questions, statements and early day motions, with links to the original parliamentary records.

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JUSTICE FOR REMAND PRISONERS

Early Day Motion House of Commons
Joyce Quin · Labour
Parliamentary excerpt

That this House is deeply concerned at the increase in the numbers of prisoners held on remand which have grown from 5,600 in 1975 to 10, 500 in 1989; condemns the fact that many remand prisoners are locked up for lengthy periods each day and that many are obliged to share cells with convicted prisoners; deplores the fact that large numbers of remand prisoners have to wait many months, or even years, before coming to trial; notes with dismay that the Woolf report stated that conditions for re...

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