HC Deb 26 April 1906 vol 156 cc34-5
MR. CLAUDE HAY (Shoreditch, Hoxton)

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state the number of prisoners of twelve years of ago and under sixteen years of age now in the local prisons in Ireland, and whether he will give particulars of the offence and sentence in each case?

I beg also to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state the number of prisoners of sixteen years of ago and under twenty-one years of age now in the local prisons in Ireland, and whether he will give particulars of the offence and sentence in each case.

MR. CHERRY

In order to obtain the information asked for in these two Questions, reference to the several prisons in Ireland will be necessary, and this will take some little time. My right hon. friend will forward the information to the hon. Member as soon as it has been prepared.

MR. CLAUDE HAY

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland why it is stated in the Report for the year 1904 of the governor of Belfast prison that twenty-five juvenile adults were incarcerated in that prison, when the Report for the same year of the governor of Maryborough prison states that all juvenile prisoners sentenced to one month's imprisonment and upwards are sent to that prison; and whether he will furnish particulars of the offences and sentences of the twenty-five juvenile adults incarcerated in Belfast prison referred to in this Question.

MR. CHERRY

The hon. Member is under a misapprehension. The governor of Belfast prison made no allusion to juvenile adults, viz., persons between sixteen and twenty-one years of age, nor did the governor of Maryborough prison allude to the subject. The statement made by the governor of Belfast prison was that twenty-five juveniles, viz., persons under sixteen years of age, were committed during the year. The governor of Mountjoy prison stated that all juveniles sentenced to one month's imprisonment and upwards are sent to that prison. Of the twenty-five juveniles committed to Belfast prison, four who were sentenced to a month's imprisonment or upwards were transferred to Mountjoy prison.