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Race Discrimination in Prisons
The provisions prohibiting unlawful discrimination in housing and in relation to goods, facilities and services have been held to apply in certain circumstances to prisons. However prisons are also public authorities and so covered by section 19B in any event. It would therefore be unlawful for prison staff to discriminate on racial grounds in the allocation of work to prisoners, or by withdrawing privileges from, or engaging in more frequent strip searches of, black prisoners.
