REPORTS FROM COMMISSIONERS, 1927. SIX VOLUMES:--CONTENTS OF THE N.B.-THE Figures at the beginning of the line correspond with the No. at the foot of each Report; and the Figures at the end of the line refer to the Paging of the Volumes arranged for the House of Commons. PRISONS: [Cmd. 2826.] Report of the Commissioners of Prisons and the Directors of Convict Prisons for the year 1925-26. [Cmd. 3003.] Report for the year 1926. PRISONS (SCOTLAND) : p. 1 85 [Cmd. 2873.] Annual Report of the Prison Commissioners for Scotland for the year 1926. PUBLIC LIBRARIES: [Cmd. 2868.] 133 Report of the Committee on Public Libraries in England and Wales. RAILWAYS: Accidents : 231 [Cmd. 2941.] Report on the Accidents that occurred on the Railways of Great Britain during the year 1926. 587 Railway and Canal Commission : [Cmd. 2840.] Thirty-eighth Annual Report of the Railway and Canal Commission, with an Appendix, for the year 1926. SAFEGUARDING OF INDUSTRIES : 609 [Cmd. 2837.] Report of the Committee on Light Leather Goods and Metal Fittings. 625 [Cmd. 2838.] Report of the Committee on Table-ware of Translucent Pottery. Vol. XII.-1927. 643 [Cmd. 3002.] Report of the Committee of the Privy Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, for the year 1926-27. p. 677 SHOPS: [Cmd. 3000.] Report of the Departmental Committee appointed to inquire into the working of the Shops (Early Closing) Acts, 1920 and 1921. VALUATION OF STOCKS : 839 [Cmd. 2839.] Report of the Committee on the Valuation of Navy, Army and Air Force Stocks. WEST INDIES: 903 [Cmd. 2968.] Report on the Opportunities for Civil Air Transport in the West Indies. WIRELESS TELEPHONY: 923 [Cmd. 2858.] Report of Committee on Trans-Atlantic Wireless Telephony. 953 YOUNG OFFENDERS: [Cmd. 2831.] Report of the Departmental Committee on the Treatment of Young Offenders. 959 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE 15, Donegall Square West, Belfast; or through any Bookseller. 1927 Price 1s. 6d. Net. Cmd. 2826. $ Page 3 APPENDIX NO. 1.-Reports of Medical Commissioner, and APPENDIX NO. 2.-Extracts from Reports of Governors, APPENDIX NO. 3.-International Penitentiary Congress, London, 1925. Questions and Resolutions APPENDIX No. 4.-List of Educational Advisers to the APPENDIX No. 5.-List of Local Prisons closed since 1900 APPENDIX No. 6.-Return of the accommodation, the daily average number, the greatest and the least number in custody, at each prison and Borstal Institution APPENDIX No. 7.—(a) Statement of restraints, (b) punishments, and offences at each prison, &c.; (c) Return of particulars of each APPENDIX NO. 9.—Return showing the sentences of prisoners received on conviction during the year APPENDIX NO. 11.-Return of the number of convicted prisoners received, sentenced to Imprisonment, with or without the option of APPENDIX No. 12.-Return showing (a) the total expenditure of prisons and Borstal Institutions, for staff, maintenance, &c. ; (b) the We have the honour to present our report for the year ended 31st March, 1926. The principal statistical tables have been maintained, and some information has been added about the number of individual persons represented by the figures of receptions into prison, (see page 9). Some subjects discussed in previous reports have been treated more briefly this year. Where such is the case, it is to be understood that there has been no substantial change, and that we do not at present desire to add to what we have said on these matters in our last three reports. Comment has also been suspended on some points which are under the consideration of the Young Offenders' Committee. I. PRISON POPULATION.. It will be recollected that the extent and nature of the problem presented by the law-breaker is somewhat obscured, in the ordinary tables, by the fact that these show the numbers of receptions into prison, and that these are not necessarily the numbers of individuals received. In the local prisons, which contain most of the persons in custody (7,800 out of the daily (23748) Wt. 10451A 62 1750 3 27 Harrow G.79/40 A 2 |