§ Mr. Dudley Smithasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many convicted persons, now serving gaol sentences, are currently in Her Majesty's prisons despite the fact that the trial judge recommended that they should be detained in mental hospitals or institutions.
2Wtrates' Courts Act 1952 with a view to borstal sentence. On 31 January 1979, 156 boys aged 15 to 16 were held in remand centres or local prisons after conviction but before sentence. The number so held on certificates of unruliness could be obtained only at disproportionate cost.