§ 33. Mr. Lubbockasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT, a list of prisons in London and the Home Counties, giving the number of prisoners in each, and the number sleeping three to a cell in each.
§ Following are the figures:
7TH MAY, 1963* | ||
Prison | Population | Three in a Cell |
Prisons for Men | ||
Brixton | 777 | 255 |
Pentonville | 1,392 | 654 |
Wandsworth | 1,606 | 597 |
Wormwood Scrubs | 1,125 | 327 |
Chelmsford | 219 | — |
Maidstone | 428 | — |
Canterbury | 363 | 273 |
Eastchurch | 520 | — |
Bedford | 244 | 126 |
Aylesbury | 119 | — |
Grendon | 91 | — |
Spring Hill | 147 | — |
Ford | 411 | — |
Lewes | 271 | — |
7,713 | 2,232 | |
Prisons for Women | ||
Holloway | 437 | — |
Hill Hall | 49 | — |
486 | — | |
* The latest date for which both sets of figures are readily available. |