HC Deb 17 May 1888 vol 326 c548
MR. D. CRAWFORD (Lanark, N.E.)

asked the Lord Advocate, Whether the Government have yet arranged any plan for the discharge of prisoners from Barlinnie Prison which will be free from the inconvenience to the neighbourhood, amounting to a public nuisance, caused by the present system?

THE LORD ADVOCATE (Mr. J. H. A. MACDONALD) (Edinburgh and St. Andrew's Universities)

, in reply, said, that arrangements to meet the difficulty had been adjusted subject to the approval of the Treasury, in which Department the matter was at present receiving consideration.