9 males; costs in other proceedings, 19 males and 1 female; other civil debts, 8 males and 1 female.

Assizes and Quarter Sessions, 2 males for non-payment of estreated recognizances, and 1 female for non-payment of costs of an appeal.

C

Irish deportees, 5 females; 1 male imprisoned to prevent absconding during hearing of bankruptcy petition.

TABLE XXXI.-CONVICTS.-Length of Sentences of Convicts in Prison

on the 31st December, 1923.

In the case of sentences modified by the Court of Criminal Appeal or by the exercise of the Royal Prerogative this Table shows the sentences as so altered.

The note to Table XXIX also applies to this Table.

(1)

Total Number.

Period actually Served.

Number of those included
in the foregoing columns
who, in addition to
Sentences of Penal Servi
tude are liable to serve
remanets of former
Sentences.

(17)

Number of those included in the foregoing

Penal Servitude are under Sentences of. columns who, in addition to Sentences of Preventive Detention.

4

31

3

TOTAL 1,571 1,510 61 562 525 271 130 52 27 4

a Including 3 persons convicted of Murder who, being under 16 years of age on conviction, were sentenced to be detained during His Majesty's pleasure (Children Act, 1908, sec. 103).

Note. In addition to those shown above, 40 Court-Martial Convicts were also in prison at the end of the year, viz :-Commuted Death Sentence, 9 cases; Original Life Sentence, 2 cases; 20 years Penal Servitude, 3 cases; 15 years, 3 cases; 10 years, 7 cases; 7 years, 3 cases; 5 years, 7 cases; 4 years, 2 cases; 3 years, 4 cases.

(1)

27 27

26

1 24

AGES.

(21)

NUMBER OF PREVIOUS CONVICTIONS.

BORSTAL INSTITUTIONS.

Borstal Institutions are places in which young offenders, aged upon conviction not less than sixteen nor more than twenty-one years, may be given such industrial training and other instruction and be subjected to such disciplinary and moral influences as will conduce to their reformation and the prevention of crime.

Courts of Assize and Quarter Sessions may sentence persons within the limits of age, who are convicted of offences punishable with penal servitude or imprisonment, to Borstal Detention for not less than two years nor more than three years.

Borstal Institutions have been established at Borstal, Canterbury, Feltham, and Portland for males, and at Aylesbury for females.

Table XXXIII supplements the information given in Tables I, II, III, VIII, and XII, with regard to persons sentenced to Borstal Detention. Other information concerning the inmates and management of Borstal Institutions is given in the Annual Report of the Commissioners of Prisons (Cmd. 2,307).

PLACES OF DETENTION.

Places of Detention are provided by police authorities for the temporary detention of children and young persons under 16 years of age charged with offences, when the circumstances do not admit of release upon recognizances and it would otherwise be necessary to confine the child or young person in a police station or prison.

Children or young persons convicted of offences punishable in the case of adults by penal servitude or imprisonment may be committed to Places of Detention for terms not exceeding one month.

Places of Detention consist of—

(1) Institutions used for the purpose by arrangement, and

(2) (in a few large cities) premises specially established for the purpose.

The former classes of premises include Reformatory Schools (for convicted cases only), Industrial Schools, boys' and girls' refuges and homes, workhouses, and similar institutions.