§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the practice of handcuffing together on a chain remand prisoners, male and female, and taking them into railway stations on their way to trial has been brought to his notice; and whether he will consider the advisability of avoiding as far as possible the subjecting of unconvicted prisoners to public disgrace.
§ * SIR M. WHITE RIDLEYFrom time to time I receive representations with regard to this practice at particular places, and steps are taken to obviate the necessity so far as practicable in view of the exigencies of each case, but the difficulty of ensuring the safe custody of a number of prisoners without having resort to some mechanical means of restraint is very great.