[1] This had been one of the conditions set by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) when they negotiated a meeting with the government to discuss a truce.
They will be allowed to receive at least one visit and a food parcel each week and to spend their own money in the prison canteen.
[6]In January 1975 the Gardiner Committee, which looked at how the government should deal with "terrorism and subversion in Northern Ireland" in the "context of civil liberties and human rights", recommended the ending of SCS.
[citation needed] The government accepted the recommendation and on 1 March 1976, the new Labour Secretary of State Merlyn Rees announced the phasing out of SCS.
The privileges were gradually phased back in afterwards, with the core demands of protesting prisoners in place by early 1983.