§ MR. H. B. SHERIDANasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Whether, under section twenty-four, or any other section of the Prisons Act, debtors, unconvicted persons, and non-criminal prisoners, can be sent out of their own county for confinement in the prison of another county?
MR. ASSHETON CROSSYes, Sir; otherwise the clause of the Act would be practically inoperative. Great care is taken, however, that the persons alluded to should not be sent any great distance, so that they may not be caused much inconvenience in returning.
§ MR. H. B. SHERIDANsaid, that Section 26 of the Act seemed to contemplate that the prisoners should be confined in their own county?
MR. ASSHETON CROSSsaid, the matter had been very carefully considered, and he was advised that there was no doubt about the matter.