HC Deb 09 April 1878 vol 239 c959
MR. WHITBREAD

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, in future, a prisoner will be permitted on his reception in any local prison, either after conviction or on removal, to write a letter to his friends?

MR. ASSHETON CROSS

, in reply, said, that an alteration would be made in the prison regulations to place the local prisons on the same footing in the respect referred to with the convict prisons.