§ Mr. Aylesasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many visits per year are permitted to a Borstal boy; and how many such visits have been received on an average each year by men imprisoned in Dartmoor.
§ Mr. EdeA youth detained in a Borstal institution is entitled to receive 13 visits a year, but the average number of visits paid to each person detained is about two a year, and the available figures do not suggest that the number of visits paid to Borstal institution is governed by the accessibility or otherwise of the particular institution. During the first six months of 1945, when the daily average population was 601, 89 visits were paid to convicts in Dartmoor Prison. But in any event the analogy between visits to young persons undergoing Borstal training and to persons sentenced to penal servitude is not a sound one, and no useful inference can be drawn from such a comparison.