Madam, - "Slopping out", even in a single cell is not nice, and in multiple-occupancy ones it must be grim. However, the cost of putting flush toilets into an old prison would be enormous, and some of these old prisons are due for replacement soon. What about modern chemical toilets, as used in caravans? Emptying them is no big deal.
Surely to make a small humane gesture would not be an admission by the State that prisoners are entitled to beggar the rest of us. - Yours, etc.,
FENELLA DELAP, Shannon, Co Clare.