§ Mr. DOUGLAS HALLasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware of the discontent prevailing among the warders at the Camp Hill House of Detention owing to the fact that they are called upon to discharge their duties under the old regulations applicable to convict establishments, which regulations are rigorously enforced, but are unfitted for an establishment such as Camp Hill, with its difficult and experimental objects; and, if so, whether he proposes to take any action in the matter?
§ Mr. McKENNAThe directors inform me that they have not heard of any discontent existing among the staff as alleged; and there is nothing in the nature of the duties discharged by the staff which differs from ordinary prison service in such a way as to call for their special treatment. I cannot, however, accept as accurate the statement that the regulations in force are unsuited for the prison1968W Although for general purposes the regulations of convict prisons apply to Camp Hill, the peculiar circumstances of this prison are amply provided for by the rules made under the Prevention of Crime Act and laid on the Table of the House on 17th February, 1911.