HC Deb 26 April 1898 vol 56 cc1214-5
MR. E. H. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S.W.)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, during the year ended 31st March, 1897, any juvenile prisoners were received at Kuntsford Prison, under the regulation reserving that prison for juveniles sentenced to one month and upwards from Cheshire, Lancashire, North Wales, Shropshire, and Staffordshire; and, if so, can he explain why the chief officers of Knutsford Prison have not made any reference in their Reports to this class of prisoners, as the chief officers of Northallerton, Warwick, Brecon, Devizes, and Bedford prisons have done?

THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Mr. JESSE COLLINGS,) Birmingham, Bordesley

Twenty-nine juveniles were so received, and were treated in accordance with the rules. No special order was in force requiring Governors to comment on these cases; but it is now the rule for them to make a special report.