§ Captain NORTHasked the Home Secretary whether, in formulating new measures for dealing with convicts of a specially dangerous type, he will take into full consideration the extent to which the recent increase of amenities and relaxation of discipline at Dartmoor were responsible for the outbreak which occurred lately in that institution; and whether the report of the committee appointed in April, 1931, to consider the whole problem of persistent offenders will be made public before any new provisions in this connection are drawn up?
§ Sir H. SAMUELThere has been no recent relaxation of discipline at Dartmoor Prison, and as pointed out in the report of the Inquiry, there is no reason to think "that the more humane and reformative treatment of prisoners which has been the aim of prison administration in this country for many years conduces to disorder." It is contemplated that when the report of the Committee on Persistent Offenders is received it shall be published without delay, and no substantial changes are likely to be made in advance of the publication of this report.