She also said the a big attraction of prison visitors were that they were "independent, had no axe to grind and were not part of the system".

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They said they were unhappy with the home affairs minister's behaviour in a recent debate about the Prison Board of Visitors.

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His concerns are shared by Woodhill's Board of Visitors, volunteers who inspect the prison on a regular basis.

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All domestic and legal visitors had been denied access to Maghaberry prison since Thursday morning, when the search operation began.

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On Tuesday, members of the committee visited the prison and heard evidence from staff and the board of visitors.

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Mr O'Connor suggested Mr Clifford had placed his career before the interests of the prison and had ultimately misled staff, his superiors and the Board of Visitors.

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Now he sits in a maximum security wing of the federal prison in Manhattan, where he has no books, no television and no visitors.

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The former Army intelligence analyst has been held largely isolated, without visitors and on suicide watch in a Quantico, Virginia brig, but will soon move to Leavenworth prison in Kansas.

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