§ Mr. RHYS DAVIESasked the Home Secretary how many convicts under sentence were in Dartmoor, Parkhurst, Maidstone, Chelmsford, and Lewes prisons on the morning of 24th January last; and how many of these in each prison were serving sentences of life imprisonment commuted from death sentences?
§ Sir H. SAMUELThe numbers are as follow:
Prison Number of prisoners. Number of prisoners serving commuted death Sentences. Dartmoor 442 1 Parkhurst 600 22 Maidstone 211 38 Chelmsford 59 4 Lewes (men serving sentences of Preventive Detention). 97 — Total 1,409 65