§ 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. |