Saoirse Brady

And the context in prison is very different for pepper spray to be used.

The Committee for the Prevention of Torture have been very clear that you can't use it in an overcrowded space, in a confined space with little ventilation from a height.

So we would really question how it could be used safely

in our overcrowded prison landings at the moment.

And that's both for prison staff and people in prison themselves.

Look, everyone deserves, everyone either working in a prison or living in a prison deserves to both feel safe and be safe.

But we need to look at de-escalation measures rather than jumping straight to looking at introducing more weapons into an already volatile situation.