§ MAJOR DICKSON (Dover)asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, If he will inform the House how many convicts the Dover Prison can accommodate; and, how many are quartered there at present, and how they are employed?
§ THE SECRETARY or STATE (Mr. MATTHEWS) (Birmingham, E.)The prison will accommodate 612 convicts when the buildings now in progress are complete. There are 187 prisoners there now. They are employed principally in the prison buildings and works,