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XI. What was the annual amount
of the • prisoners' earnings during
18.94—95?
Taking an average of the number
of prisoners employed on Public
Works and valuing their labour at
4£c.p. per man per diem, the value of
the services of the convicts during the
year may be put at £1,338 lis. 6c.p.
The estimated value of the labour of
prisoners employed on industrial
work (shoe-making, tailoring, wea–
ving, and dyeing) is £1,138 14s. 4c.p,
The total amount earned by pri–
soners and paid into the Treasury
during the year was £48 3s. 4e.p.
flaking a total of £2,525 9s. 5c.p.
XII. W h a t are the number of the
In
winter 10 hours, in summer 8
3iours allotted for sleep? And, if sleep r*>
ours
- Sleep is in association. The
is in association, are the dormitories passages, corridors and wards ai-e well
lighted; and Jaow often are they lighted. They are constantly patrolled
patrolled during the night?
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and are visited
irettucntly and at uncertain hours by
.the Governor of the Prison.
•One warder is stationed in each
icorridor.
XIII. W h a t were the -number and
•-nature of the punishments inflicted for
offences committed by prisoners under-
ageing imprisonment?
Flogged, not exceeding 25
lashes
, 14
Chains, 1 to 3 months -. —
Solitary confinement, with
bread and water 1 to 6
•days
166
Solitary confinement
1
to 9
days
—
Bread
and water,
1
to
7
days
1,000
Dark Cell
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