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Subject: "Privileges" Lost

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Maghaberry

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Date Posted: 06:10:47 09/19/02 Thu

From the Derry News - Thursday - 19th sept. 2002

McLaughlin loses privileges

The wife of Derry prisoner Ciaran McLaughlin yesterday accused prison authorities of discriminating against her husband, after she learned he was to be denied association with other prisoners for 21 days.

Mr McLaughlin recently broke the terms of his 12-hour compassionate leave following the death of his grandchild by going on-the-run for two days in protest at the brevity of the leave.

"He has lost these so-called privileges because he is a republican prisoner," Mrs. McLaughlin said. "We were expecting some sort of penalty but not to this extent."

Same issue - page 19 Report by Darinagh Boyle

McLaughlin visitors 'insulted'

Derry Prisoners' Welfare Association yesterday hit out at what it describes as the further "criminalisation of prisoners" when three friends of Galliagh republican Ciaran McLaughlin were refused normal visiting conditions at the weekend.

The men were denied a routine visit when a sniffer dog trained to identify drugs halted in front of one of them.

The men strenuously argued that they had no contact with drugs and pointed out that none of them even smoke cigarettes. And they insisted they had worn fresh clothes to the prison, which could not have been contaminated.

Prison officials then offered the trio a 'closed visit' at which they would have been separated from Mr McLaughlin by a screen.

However, both the visitors and the prisoner refused the option - describing it as an "insult".

A spokesperson for the Prisoners' Welfare Association told the Derry News that the treatment of the visitors was "part of a process to criminalize prisoners and their family and friends.

"We are not against measures to prevent drugs being taken into prisons but the wrong people are being deliberately punished.

"It is well known that republican activists are vehemently anti-drugs and this adds further insult to Mr McLaughlin, his family and his visitors. And this is about an attempt to criminalise them. It only adds weight to demands for full status."

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