MR. LLOYD MORGAN (Carmarthenshire, W.)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will state the number of cases in which prisoners have been flogged for breaches of prison discipline during each year from 1900 to 1905; will he state the prison where each sentence was carried out; and whether the medical officer in any instance interfered with the carrying out of the sentence.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) Corporeal punishment can only be imposed in prison for mutiny, incitement to mutiny, and gross personal violence to prison officers. The following statement shows the number of cases of corporeal punishment inflicted in local and convict prisons during each of the years ended 1603 March 31st, 1901 to 1905, and the number of instances in which the medical officer
| Year ended 31st March. | |||||
| 1901. | 1902. | 1903. | 1904. | 1905. | |
| Local Prisons: | |||||
| Birmingham | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Bristol | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Cambridge | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| Canterbury | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Chelmsford | 1 | — | — | 1 | — |
| Devizes | — | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| Durham | — | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Exeter | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Hull | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| Ipswich | — | — | — | 3 | — |
| Knutsford | — | 2 | — | — | 1 |
| Leicester | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Lewes | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | — |
| Liverpool | — | 1 | — | 3 | — |
| Maidstone | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | — |
| Manchester | — | — | 1 | 1 | — |
| Newcastle | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Northallerton | 1 | — | — | — | — |
| Norwich | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Nottingham | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Pentonville | 5 | 2 | — | 1 | 2 |
| Preston | — | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Reading | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| Ruthin | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| St. Albans | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| Shepton Mallett | — | — | — | 1 | — |
| Stafford | 1 | — | — | — | 2 |
| Wakefield | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | — |
| Wandsworth | 2 | 3 | 8 | 1 | — |
| Warwick | — | — | — | 2 | — |
| Worcester | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Wormwood Scrubbs | 8 | 1 | 1 | — | 4 |
| Convict prisons: | |||||
| Borstal | 6 | — | 2 | 2 | — |
| Dartmoor | 3 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 7 |
| Portland | 10 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| Parkhurst | — | 1 | 2 | 5 | — |
| Total | 42 | 46 | 47 | 40 | 23 |
| Part of the punishment was remitted by the medical officer in— | |||||
| 1900–1 in two cases (one at Birmingham, one at Borstal). | |||||
| 1901–2 in one case (Portland). | |||||
| 1902–3 in one case (Birmingham). | |||||
| 1903–4 in two cases (one at Parkhurst, one at St. Albans). | |||||
| 1904–5 in two cases (one at Exeter, one at Portland). |
§ interfered with the carrying out of the sentence:—