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Questions.
mAnsicers.
V. H o w are the prisoners classified ?
VI. Is penal labour—that is, labour by
treadmill, crank, or shot drill—in force?
\ II. If so, (a) during what periods of
imprisonment, (b) in respect of what classes of
prisoners, (c) and during how, m a n y hours, is
such penal labour enforced? In stating hours
of treadwheel labour, give,first,the total time
on and off at the wheel, &c.; secondlv, the
length of spells and intervals -of rest.
VIII. "What kind of labour, other than
penal labour, is in use?
IX. If the prisoners are employed beyond
, the walls of the gaol, state—
1. On what kind of work they are so
employed ?
H o w are they supervised?
3. H o w m a n y escapes of prisoners, while
being employed beyond the gaol, have taken
place during each ofthe last three years?
Prisoners before trial.
Debtors.
Convicted prisoners
Penal labour is in force principally in the
form of stone-breaking; treadmill cannot be re–
sorted to owing to want of appliances. Crank
in force as punishment labour.
See answer to question No. VI.
(a). During all periods of imprisonment
in the Central Prison.
(b). All classes of prisoners in the Central
Prison excepting those sentenced to imprison–
ment only.
(c). The usual number of hours for a day's
labour to complete 10,000 revolutions.
Shoe-making, tailoring-, tree-planting, car–
pentering, baking, washing, dyeing, masonry.,
weaving, brush and stocking making, concrete
cement pipe-making, stone-dressing, white–
washing, cleaning-, road-making.
Cultivating Prison Farm, building; a few
convicts are employed on conservancy, fetch–
ing stone for stone-breaking and carrying
away manure from Police stables.
_ By prison warders and armed escorts of
Police, and in one case bv a convict guard.
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1902-1903, Nil.
1903-1904, Nil.
1904-1905, Nil.
4. H o w are
accounted for ?
the profits of their labour
Profits are paid into the Treasury or are
accounted for by the Public Works Department.
X. What was the total annual cost of the
prisons during the year 1904-1905?
£
Nicosia, Central Prison ... 3,142
Larnaca
155
Limassoi
935
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kyrenia
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Famagusta
_ 970
Crown Agents accounts, etc. ' 807
General Total £4,826
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