§ VISCOUNT TEMPLEWOODasked His Majesty's Government how many prisoners are now being detained under (a) corrective training, (b) preventive detention, and in what prisons they are being held.
THE LORD CHANCELLOROn January 30, 1951, 2,160 men and 89 women were detained in H.M. Prisons in England and Wales under sentences of corrective training, and 517 men and 18 women under sentences of preventive detention. The 2,160 men serving sentences of corrective training were held as follows:—
In regional training prisons (Maidstone, Sudbury, The Verne, Wakefield) —373;
In corrective training prisons (Camp Hill, Chelmsford, Durham, Liverpool, Nottingham, Wormwood Scrubs)— 1,268;
In Manchester and Pentonville, in which parts of the prisons have been set aside for men who prove to be recalcitrant in the training prisons—46,
In the allocation centre (Reading)— 111;
In local prisons awaiting removal to Reading, or having been recalled after revocation of licence—362.
444WAThe 89 women were held as follows:
In the regional training prison, Askham Grange—11;
In the corrective training wing at Holloway—74;
In local prisons—4.
Of the 517 men serving sentences of preventive detention, 222 who had reached the second stage of their sentences and one who was still in the first stage of his sentence were detained at Parkhurst; there were also at Parkhurst thirty-six men serving sentences of preventive detention passed on them under the Prevention of Crime Act, 1908. The remaining 258 men were still serving the first stage of their sentences in local prisons.
Of the eighteen women serving sentences of preventive detention, sixteen (including three women serving the first stage of their sentence and one woman sentenced under the Act of 1908) were at Holloway. Two women were serving the first stage of their sentence at Manchester.