Sir, – I wish to highlight the religious bigotry and loyalist hatred Catholic prisoners in the North face today. All the best jobs and opportunities for study are afforded to and availed of by Protestant inmates. Statistics will prove this.
The prison punishment unit, in which I have spent nearly two years is aptly nicknamed the Catholic supervision unit. During the time I spent in the CSU, it was always and is still filled with Catholics: this in a prison filled with loyalist rioters. Something obviously is not right.
It is time that our fellow Irishmen and women took more of an interest in the treatment of Catholics incarcerated in British prisons in our country. We as Irish nationalists must always strive to achieve equality from a foreign power which still holds part of our country in chains. – Yours, etc,
LIAM MULHERN,
Maghaberry Prison,
Ballinderry Upper,
Lisburn.