HC Deb 10 November 1949 vol 469 cc136-8W
29. Mr. Maude

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what were the names and addresses of those penal establishments which on 1st October. 1949, contained persons undergoing sentences of corrective training or preventive detention, with the numbers of such persons held in such places.

Mr. Ede

The following are the numbers of prisoners who on 4th October, 1949, were serving sentences of corrective training or preventive detention in accommodation in His Majesty's Prisons set aside for the purpose:

Chelmsford: corrective training—233.

Holloway:

  • corrective training—28.
  • preventive detention—5.

Liverpool: corrective training—54.

Maidstone: corrective training—24.

Parkhurst, Isle of Wight: preventive detention—34 (serving sentences passed under the Prevention of Crime Act, 1908).

Sudbury Park, Derbyshire: corrective training—6.

Wakefield: corrective training—26.

The following are the numbers of prisoners who on 4th October, 1949, were serving sentences of corrective training or preventive detention in accommodation in local prisons:

Bedford: corrective training—16.

Birmingham:

  • corrective training—32.
  • preventive detention—9.

Bristol:

  • corrective training—8.
  • preventive detention—6.

Canterbury:

  • corrective training—14.
  • preventive detention—2.

Cardiff: preventive detention—2.

Dorchester:

  • corrective training—7.
  • preventive detention—1.

Durham:

  • corrective training—6.
  • preventive detention—1.

Exeter:

  • corrective training—6.
  • preventive detention—1.

Gloucester:

  • corrective training—9.
  • preventive detention—7.

Leeds:

  • corrective training—46.
  • preventive detention—8.

Leicester:

  • corrective training—8.
  • preventive detention—2.

Lincoln:

  • corrective training—5.
  • preventive detention—5.

Liverpool:

  • corrective training—19.
  • preventive detention—11.

Manchester:

  • corrective training—45.
  • preventive detention—11.

Norwich:

  • corrective training—7.
  • preventive detention—4.

Oxford:

  • corrective training—5.
  • preventive detention—2.

Pentonville:

  • corrective training—31.
  • preventive detention—15.

Reading: corrective training—1.

Shrewsbury:

  • corrective training—4.
  • preventive detention—1.

Stafford:

  • corrective training—3.
  • preventive detention—1.

Swansea:

  • corrective training—1.
  • preventive detention—2.

Wandsworth:

  • corrective training—98.
  • preventive detention—69.

Winchester:

  • corrective training—22.
  • preventive detention—8.

Wormwood Scrubs:

  • corrective training—4.
  • preventive detention—1.

30. Mr. Maude

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many persons have been sentenced to corrective training or preventive detention this year up to 1st October; how many of these persons at that date were detained in ordinary prisons and treated as persons undergoing sentences of imprisonment; and in what respects the treatment of a person sentenced to corrective training or preventive detention now differs from a person undergoing a sentence of imprisonment.

Mr. Ede

On 4th October, 732 men and 36 women prisoners were serving sentences of corrective training and 165 men and nine women were serving sentences of preventive detention passed under the Criminal Justice Act, 1948. All the persons sentenced to preventive detention were serving the first stage of their sentences in local prisons. 389 men and eight women sentenced to corrective training were in local prisons. I am sending the hon. and learned Member a note about the treatment accorded to prisoners sentenced to corrective training or preventive detention.