§ Colonel DAYasked the Home Secretary if he is aware that many debtors, when committed to prison, often have to serve their sentences in distant towns; and will he, in view of the difficult and expensive matter of their return home, recommend that such committals should, in all cases, be to prisons near the debtor's home?
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSSo far as debtors committed by Courts of Summary Jurisdiction are concerned, provision was made by a Summary Jurisdiction Rule of 31st January, 1922, for their being taken to the prison nearest to the place where they are arrested and serving their sentence there, but if the hon. Member will give; me particulars of the cases he has in mind, I can have inquiry made in regard to them.