§ Sir H. CAYZERasked the Home Secretary the number of boys who on 30th June were undergoing a sentence of detention in Borstal institutions, also indicating the number in each institution?
§ Mr. SHORTThe total number was 1,656 distributed as follows: At Borstal, near Rochester, 370; at Feltham, 394; at Portland, 444; in the building camp where the new institution is being built at Lowdham, near Nottingham, 93; in a part of Camp Hill, which has recently been set aside as a Borstal institution, 90; in the penal grade at Wormwood Scrubs, 91; in the Wormwood Scrubs reception class awaiting allocation to the appropriate institutions, 174.
§ Sir H. CAYZERasked the Home Secretary the number of cases in which lads between the ages of 16 and 21 serv- 2098W ing sentences in local prisons have been confined to their cells as a punishment during the past six months; and the number confined to cells in each Borstal institution during the same period?
§ Mr. SHORTThe number of such cases in local prisons was 81. The number in each of the Borstal institutions was as follows: Borstal, near Rochester, 9; Feltham, none; Portland, 34; Wormwood Scrubs, 29; Lowdham, none; Camp Hill, 10; Aylesbury, none.