37. Mr. EDMUND HARVEYasked the Home Secretary whether the period of training provided for prison warders includes a period of cellular confinement and of associated labour in prisons; and whether any of the present higher prison staff or any of the Prison Commissioners have had experimental personal experience of prison discipline and in particular of cellular confinement?
§ Sir G. CAVENo, Sir.
Mr. HARVEYIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that some of the most valuable prison reforms in America have resulted from personal experience voluntarily undertaken by prison officials?
§ Sir G. CAVEIf that be so, I do not propose to ask my prison officials to undertake the experience.