36. Mr. CHANCELLORasked the Home Secretary if men in convict dress being conveyed from place to place in charge of warders, sometimes handcuffed, are often kept waiting on open platforms at stations like Liverpool Street, where they are stared at by crowds; and whether prisoners so conveyed may be clothed in ordinary dress or kept out of sight so as not to excite the curiosity of spectators?
Mr. SAMUELThe regulations are so framed as to secure as much privacy as possible for prisoners under escort. The prison officers have strict orders to give effect to these regulations, and the Prison 1510 Commissioners have no reason to think they are not carefully observed. If my hon. Friend will give me fuller particulars of the incident to which he refers, I will make inquiry.