§ Mr. BYLESasked the Home Secretary if he will say how many of those persons who in England and Wales were, in 1906, 1907, and 1908 respectively, sentenced to imprisonment or committed to prison in default of payment of fines or of finding sureties had not been previously in prison?
§ Mr. GLADSTONEI regret to say that I am unable to give the information the hon. Member asks for, but. I append a table of figures which will, I think, be of interest to him in this connection:—
1906. 1907. 1. Total number of convicted prisoners received in prison 183,726 174,598 2. Total number of convicted prisoners who had been previously convicted 107,408 103,896 3. Total number of convicted prisoners who are not known to have been previously convicted 76,318 70,702 4. Number of convicted prisoners committed in default of fine 97,373 92,371 5. Number of convicted prisoners committed in default of sureties 188 184 6. Number of unconvicted prisoners committed in default of sureties 1,211 1,115 The figures for 1908 are not yet available.