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<p>In instances where prisoners are removed from normal location they are not left
in isolation for extended periods of time and are never, therefore, held in conditions
of solitary confinement.</p><p> </p><p>Prisoners may, be held in segregation for reasons
of good order and discipline or for their own protection. They may also be segregated
to await adjudication or as a punishment of cellular confinement for offences against
prison discipline. Prisoners are only segregated where it is proportionate to the
risk posed by or to the prisoner in question and where there are no practical alternatives.
Segregation is only in circumstances that are lawful, safe and decent.</p><p> </p><p>Figures
for the number of prisoners held in segregation during the period specified are not
recorded centrally and could only be provided by collating the relevant information
from records held at (a) Lincoln prison and (b) all prisons. In either case this could
only be done at disproportionate cost.</p><p> </p>
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