§ MR. PICKERSGILL (Bethnal Green, S. W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many floggings were inflicted in convict and local prisons during the years ended March 31st, 1905, and March 31st, 1906, respectively; and whether any prisoner was flogged more than once during those years.
§ * MR. GLADSTONEThe numbers were as follows:—
One prisoner who received a corporal punishment of eighteen strokes with the birch on November 7th, 1904, also received twenty-four strokes with the birch on August 8th, 1905. No other prisoners have received corporal punishment twice during the two years named.
Convict prisons. Local prisons. Year ended March 31st, 1905 8 15 Year ended March 31st, 1906 17 30