CONFIDENTIAL
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COMMONWEALTH OFFICE
30 April 1968
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Addressed to Peking telegram No. 197 or 30 April, repeated for information to Commonwealth Orrice.
Grey.
Your telegram No. 253 [telegram No. 356 to Foreign office]:
(a) 504 prisoners (including the journalists) are in single cells and 204 are 3 to a cell. The remainder, mostly young persons in other Institutions, e.g. open prison, are in dormitory accommodation.
(0)
Those who work are in constant contact with fellow inmates. Those who refuse to work have one hour's exercise per day, taken in groups of about 80.
(c) No (repeat no) prisoners are in solitary confinement.
(â)
Prisoners have access to the library as required. There
is also a "travelling" library service.
(e)
Unlimited quantities of books can be sent to prisoners, who are normally allowed 3 books at any one time. Magazines are also unrestricted.
(1) 15 minutes.
(g) No, except in cases of emergency.
(n)
Playing cards are generally not permitted, to prevent gambling, though in practice a prisoner is allowed cards in his cell, Prisoners have no access to radio.
(i)
Prisoners have access at any time to prison officials. In addition, a J.P. visits the prison every fortnight.
Foreign Office please pass Immediate Peking 197.
Mr. Gass
[Repeated as requestedj
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