§ MR. MOODYsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any list of reformatory schools, certified under the Act 17 & 18 Viet. c. 86, had been sent to the metropolitan magistrates, to which they might send offenders convicted by them; and, if not, whether any such, list would be furnished?
§ SIR GEORGE GREY,in reply, said, that no such list had been furnished to the Metropolitan Police Offices, nor were the Government in a condition to furnish it, as they were not able to say to what extent the necessary accommodation was obtainable in the neighbourhood of London. The hon. Member was doubtless aware that juvenile prisoners could only be received into the reformatories, supported by private contributions, with the consent of the managers. Such institutions were not sufficiently numerous to provide for all the juvenile criminals in the country, but they were, he was glad to say, increasing. There was a county reformatory about to be established in Middlesex, which, when completed, would, with the private reformatories, afford room for such juvenile criminals as were committed by the magistrates of that county. Of those who were now sent to the reformatories on the recommendation of the Middlesex magistrates, a large proportion went to the establishment at Red Hill.