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APPENDIX I

LIST OF WITNESSES EXAMINED AND MEMORANDA

RECEIVED

A. The following organisations and persons gave oral evidence to the Committee:-

ORGANISATION

1. Government Departments—

*Board of Control

...

REPRESENTED BY

Lord Chancellor's Visitors

Ministry of Health

2. Local Authorities and other Local *Berkshire County Council and Berkshire Standing Joint Com- mittee Easthampstead Rural District

Council

*Wokingham Rural District Council

Crowthorne Parish Council

*Finchhampstead Parish Council

and School Managers Wokingham Without Parish

Council

Woodley and Sandford Parish

Council

Residents of Farley Hill in the Parish of Swallowfield, Berkshire

Sir Percy Barter, C.B. (Chairman). Hon. W. S. Maclay, O.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.M. (Medical Senior Commissioner).

C. F. Penton (Legal Senior Commis-

sioner).

E. O. Lewis, M.A., D.Sc., M.R.C.S.,

L.R.C.P.

I. F. Armer, C.B., M.C. (Deputy

Secretary).

Bodies-

Mr. E. R. Davies (Clerk of the County Council and Clerk of the Standing Joint Committee). Mr. C. J. Thake.

Mr. Geoffrey Heath (Clerk of the

Council).

Mr. A. B. G. Clayton (Chairman of

the Council).

Mr. H. M. Ifould.

Mr. F. M. Talmage.

Dr. E. Billing, M.A., M.R.C.S.,

L.R.C.P., J.P.

*Rev. F. J. E. Britnell, M.A.

Mr. D. Wood.

Mr. L. M. Hearn (Clerk of the

Council).

Mr. J. Hutchinson.

* Of the organisations and persons named above, those starred submitted written

also.

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3. Officers of Broadmoor Institution-

Dr. J. S. Hopwood. G3 M.B., B.S., M.R.&ff Medical

Superintendent).

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*Rev. B. V. James, M.A. (Chaplain).

Mr. F. A. Birch, R.M.P.A. (Chief Male Nurse). M 3. A. Mant (Foreman of Works)

M.. A. C. C. Baker, R.M.N. (Departmental Nurse) Mr. R. H. B. Hepplewhite, R.M.N. (Staff Nurse) Mr. A. C. Pearce, R.M.N. (Charge Nurse)

4. Others-

Local representatives

of Prison Officers' Association.

*Commander The Hon. H. Legge, C.V.O., D.S.O., R.N., Chief Constable

of Berkshire.

Chief Detective Inspector Symes, Criminal Investigation Department, New

Scotland Yard.

B.-The following other organisations made written representations to the Committee:-

Hunts. Federation of Women's Institutes (Fenstanton Women's

Institute).

National Association for Mental Health.

National Council of Women of Great Britain.

Prison Officers' Association.

Wappenham Women's Institute.

Winkfield Parish Council.

Worcester Young Women's Christian Association.

C. In addition, the Committee received written representations from the Hon. Peter Remnant, M.P., and 74 other persons (some of whom did not want their names mentioned).

APPENDIX II

A.

Extract from the Report of the Commissioners of Prisons for the Year 1947 (Cmd. 7475) (Chapter IV: paragraphs 5 and 6)

Security

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5. The growing number of escapes since the war from inside the walls of prisons led the Commissioners to call for an effort to re-establish the old standards of security. These had insensibly lapsed during the war, and though the conditions could hardly have been worse for the attempt, we felt it to be our duty to the public, as well as to our own professional standards, to make it. Unfortunate as it is that a system which aims to be one of constructive training should be cluttered up with searches and checks, lockings and unlockings, security must remain one of the foundations on which such a system has to be built. Loss of liberty being the essence of the prisoner's punishment, we must make sure that he suffers at any rate that; and we cannot even train him if we have not got him. One result in many prisons

* Of the organisations and persons named above, those starred submitted written memoranda also,

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