Prisons

Jun. 01, 1987 - Inside the Maze Prison Belfast. Demand by hunger strikers at the Maze prison were dismissed by staff there as an attempt to turn the jail into a terrorist training camp. And they showed Mr. Barry O'Brien the London Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph during his exclusive visit to the Maze, terrorist training equipment made by IRA prisoners here before they lead the special category status they are seeking to regain. He saw realistic wood and metal replicas of guns and models of bomb detonators. Prison staff described them as products of the free association for which convicted terrorist at the Northern Ireland prison are campaigning. OPS: Part of an instruction sheet for a blackboard lessons on IRA objectives. It was found hidden in one of the compounds in the Maze Prison

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Blackboard Campaigning Category Compounds Convicted Correspondent Demand Described Detonators Dismissed Exclusive Hidden Hunger Instruction Lessons Maze Objectives Obrien Realistic Regain Replicas Seeking Showed Status Strikers Terrorist

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