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Answers.
XI. What was the annual amount
of the prisoners' earnings during
1901—1902?
XII. What are the number of the
hours allotted for sleep? And, if sleep
is in association, are the dormitories
lighted: and h o w often are thev
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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 tbeir labour at
4£c.p. per man per diem, the value of
the services of the convicts dm-ing the
year may be put at £676 3s. Sep.
The estimated value of the labour of
prisoners employed on industrial
work (shoe-making, tailoring, wea–
ving, dyeing, carpentering, briuh-
making, stocking making and baking)
is £1,071 Ios. 3c.p.
The amount derived from the sale
of broken stone to Municipalities and
paid into the Treasury was £10 10s.
5c.p.
154S cubic yards of broken stone
were also supplied to the Public
Works Department for which no
payment was received.
Total £L75S 9s. 7c.p.
In winter 10 hours, iu summer 8
hours. Sleep is in association in the
District Prisons. The passages, cor–
ridors and wards are well lighted.
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 iu 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 l>
days
71
Solitarv confinement 1 to 9
davs
1
Bread and water, 1 to 7
days
600
Dark Cell
108
Crank labour 1 to 3 days
1
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