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43 results found for '"Rights of prisoners"' in Keywords.
Prison reform (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview about treatment of prisoners. Female speaker not identified.
Charles Colson on Prison Fellowship (1979)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Former Presidential adviser to US President Richard Nixon, Charles Colson discusses his Prison Fellowship scheme on a visit to London. Colson feels that British prisoners will welcome the scheme and is...
Roy Mason on Bennett Report (1979)
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- Speech
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Roy Mason on the results and recommendations of the Bennett Report, which investigated reports of injuries sustained by prisoners while in police custody. Mason says...
Roy Mason on allegations in Bennett Report (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Roy Mason on planned changes to the Police service in Northern Ireland following an investigation into allegations of police wrongdoing, the results of which have...
Governor on prisoner protests at Walton (1979)
- Genre
- Interview
The Governor of Walton Prison, William Driscoll, on action taken by prisoners in reaction to prison officers’ strikes. He says eleven prisoners have barricaded themselves into a cell. He will shortly have...
Denis Faul on hunger strikes (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Father Denis Faul describes the situation surrounding a hunger strike at Maze Prison, Northern Ireland. He has been asking inmates to suspended the strike to give more time for negotiation. Faul says the...
Maze hunger strike - Humphrey Atkins view (1980)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Report on an interview (including excerpts) with UK Northern Ireland Secretary Humphrey Atkins on the hunger strike by Republican prisoners at the Maze Prison in Belfast and their demands for political...
Maze hunger strike - lan Paisley interview (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with Democratic Unionist (DUP) leader Reverend lan Paisley where he criticises the UK Government over alleged negotiations with Republican prisoners at the Maze Prison in Belfast during their...
Maze Prison protest - John Hume view (1980)
- Genre
- Interview
Eamonn Mallie interviews SDLP leader John Hume on the conditions in the Maze Prison and the hunger strike at the jail by Republican prisoners. Calls for all parties to seek a resolution.
Maze Prison protest - Sile de Valera view (1980)
- Genre
- Speech
Speech by Irish Fianna Fail politician Sile de Valera in Letterkenney during campaigning for the Donegal by-election, on the condition of the Republican hunger strikers at the Maze Prison in Belfast and...