§ MR. WHITBREADasked 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.