§ VISCOUNT TEMPLEWOODasked His Majesty's Government what sections of the Criminal Justice Act, 1948, have been brought into operation, and what are the dates for bringing into operation the remaining sections, and what new institutions—for instance, prisons for corrective training and preventive detention, detention centres and attendance centres—have been started and where they are situated.
THE LORD CHANCELLORAll the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act, 1948, except one, are now in force. The provision which has not been brought into force is the repeal, in Part I of the Tenth Schedule, of certain portions of Section 12 (5) of the Criminal Justice Act, 1925; this repeal is inconsistent with the amendment made in the same subsection by the Ninth Schedule. Sentences of corrective training may be served either in regional training prisons or in prisons or parts of prisons set aside for corrective training. The following prisons or parts of prisons have been set aside and are or will shortly be in use for corrective training: Chelmsford Prison (the whole); Liverpool Prison (two wings); Wormwood Scrubs Prison (two wings); Durham Prison (one wing); Holloway Prison (women), (one wing);964WA in addition, Reading Prison has been set aside as an allocation centre for men sentenced to corrective training.
It is provided by the Prison Rules that sentences of preventive detention are to be served in three stages, of which the first is passed in a local prison. All the prisoners sentenced to preventive detention since the provisions of the Criminal Justice Act relating to preventive detention came into force are still in this first stage at their local prisons. It is proposed to accommodate the second stage men in a portion of Parkhurst Prison which is being prepared for the purpose, and the second stage women in a portion of Holloway. No remand centres, detention centres or attendance centres have yet been set up, but plans have been made with the co-operation of the local justices, police and local authorities for three attendance centres to be set up at Peel House, London, at Smethwick and at Hull. The necessary rules for the conduct of these centres will come into force shortly and it is hoped that the three centres will be opened during June.