§ MR. WEDGWOOD (Newcastle-under-Lyme)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether he will say what are the dietary, labour, and other conditions of imprisonment for male and female prisoners in English and Welsh gaols who are sentenced to eighteen months, twenty-one months, or two years imprisonment with hard labour; whether there is any difference in such dietary, labour, and conditions of imprisonment for prisoners confined at Borstal or treated under the Borstal system; and, if so, what those differences are.
§ (Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) The dietary, labour, and conditions of imprisonment for ordinary prisoners sentenced to hard labour are those prescribed in the Local Prison Code (Dietary Rules of the 2nd September, 1901, and General Rules 1 to 77). These rules apply to prisoners treated under the Borstal system, except so far as they are modified by the Special Rules of the 24th January, 1902. The dietary of prisoners under the Borstal system is 434 the ordinary Local Prison C diet with the additions in Standing Order 11 (Borstal). The differences in detail are too numerous and complicated to be set out in a reply to a Question. If the hon. Member will inquire of the Prison Department with regard to any particular point in which he is interested, he will be given full information.