§ Mr. Harveyasked the Home Secretary whether the requirement in the Standing Orders for Prisons, that books sent to prisoners by their friends must be suitably bound, precludes prisoners from receiving paper-backed books?
§ Mr. H. MorrisonIn view of the difficulties created in prisons by the circulation of unbound publications, it was formerly the practice to exclude books of this kind from prisons, but having regard to the excellence of many of these publications and of their advantage from the point of view of economy, I have instructed prison governors that for the present they may receive such books for prisoners.