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Prison Reform Talks Amid Hunger Strike Fallout in Northern Ireland
Britain's Northern Ireland secretary James Prior visits Belfast amid pledges of prison reforms to avert renewed IRA hunger strikes after Maze Prison death fasts. Talks with inmates likely before Tuesday as concerns rise over potential mass releases and remission of sentences. Six prisoners ended their fasts last Saturday while over 100 inmates faced possible release if protests continued.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPD
Britain
James Prior
Maze Prison
Maze
Denis Faul
Faul
Lord Gowrie
Prior
Robert Bradford
Pat Sheehan
Jackie Mcmullac
Gerard Carvill
IRA
John Pickering
Gerard Hodgkins
Jim Devine