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X L What was the annual amount
of the prisoners' earnings during
1899—1900?
XII. What are the number of the
hours allotted for sleep? And, if sleep
is in association, are the dormitories
lighted: and how often are thev
patrolled during the night ?
XIII. What were the number and
nature of the punishments inflicted for
offences committed by prisoners under–
going imprisonment?
Taking an average of the number
of prisoners employed on Public
Works and valuing their labour at
4icp. per man per diem, the value cf
the services of the convicts during; the
year may be put at £1,302 14s. 5c.p.
The estimated value of the labour of
prisoners employed on industrial
work (shoe-making, tailoring, wea–
ving, dyeing, carpentering, brush
broom and stocking making) is
£1,051 3s. Sep
The amount derived from the sale
of broken stone to Municipalities and
paid into the Treasurv was £30 2s.
4c.p.
1892 cubic yards of broken stone
were also supplied to the Public
Works Department for which no
payment was received.
Total £2,384 0s. 3c.p.
In winter 10 hours, in summer 8
hours. Sleep is in association in the
District Prisons. The passages, cor–
ridors and wards are well lighted.
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They are constantly patrolled during
the night, and are visited frequently
and at uncertain hours by the Gover–
nor of the Prison.
Each prisoner sleeps in a separate
cell in the Central Prison.
One warder is stationed in each
corridor or (in the Central Prison)
Block.
Flogged, not exceeding 25
lashes
4
Solitary confinement, with
bread and water 1 to (>
davs
7ii
Solitary confinement 1 to 9
Jays
3
Bread and water, 1 to 7
days
1.0,S
Dark Cell
94
Crank labour 1 to 3 days ... —
4 to 7 .. ... 8
., .. over 7 days ... 10