IN PRISON SIR,—My wife is one of the women now
in prison for demonstrating against nuclear weapons at Swaff- ham on December 20. .
She was taken to prison. last Friday by the local police, after refusing to sign the undertaking required by the court.
When I came home from work I found a note saying she had gone to jail: I waited twenty-four hours for some notification from the police of her where- abouts, but hearing nothing I rang up the Warrant Officer's office at 4 p.m. on Saturday to find out where she had been imprisoned. They said they could tell me nothing, but advised asking the magistrate's court. They also could tell me nothing, but said Holloway Prison might tell me. They knew nothing. All these police refused to give' me the telephone number of Holloway Prison, which seemed the most likely place for her to have gone. I subsequently found it in the telephone book and rang Holloway Prison, who refused to tell me if she was, in fact, there.
I submit that this is a monstrous state of affairs and not in accordance with the usual high principles of British justice, and hope you will give it the greatest possible publicity.—Yours faithfully,
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