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<p>All prisons are expected to facilitate requests from nursing mothers to breastfeed
their child during the course of a prison visit and must make every possible effort
to accommodate these requests.</p><p>There is currently no central policy which sets
out detailed arrangements for breastfeeding mothers who are visiting prisons and decisions
on such matters are made locally. However, Prison Service Instruction 16/2011 (Providing
Visits and Services to Visitors) requires prisons to take account of, inter alia,
the needs of pregnant women and nursing mothers when leaving and returning to a prison
establishment during a visit.</p><p>Information on the nursing facilities available
at prisons across the prison estate is not centrally held and could be obtained only
at disproportionate costs.</p><p><strong> </strong></p>
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