Having been incarcerated myself, and having been he victim of physical abuse at the hands of 'screws' at Armley prison (Leeds) around the time of large numbers of so called suicides of young offenders, I would like to say that 'beatings' of anybody, by screws, is unforgivable. I have served parts of my sentences in the same prisons as the IRA, UDA, and Jeremy, himself. They did their dirty protests and nobody got hurt by any of them. Rather than villify them, learn to respect what they all did during those protests, and the reason why they all felt they had to take such action. The IRA considered themselves as 'prisoners of war', as bad as the atrocities they were convicted of carrying out, you have to ask yourselves, whether or not, when countries like ours drop bombs which murder and maim innocent victims or by standers, that the forces our country have deployed is akin to us being responsible for causing similar attrocties?