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Questions.
Answers.
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 wliat classes of
prisoners, (c) and during how many hours, is
such penal labour enforced? In stating hours
of treadwheel labour, give, first, the total time
on and off at the wheel, &c.; secondly, 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 ?
2. H o w are they supervised?
3.' H o w many escapes of prisoners, while
being employed beyond the gaol, have taken
place during each of the 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-
cleaning, read-making. stone-
washing.
breakmo*.
Cultivating Prison Farm, building; a few
convicts are employed on cooservancy, fetch–
ing stone for stone-breaking and carrying
away manure from Police stables, road-making,
Public Garden.
By prison warders and armed escorts of
Pohce, and in one case by a convict guard.
1904-1905, Nil.
1905-1906, Nil.
1906-1907, Nil.
4. H o w are the profits of their labour
accounted for ?
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 1906-1907 ?
£ s. cp.
Nicosia, Central Prison ... 3,1S7 10 7
Larnaca
153 0 7
Limassoi
930 3 8
japko
;;; 15214 1
^yrenia
57 1 0
Famagusta
289 0 1
Crown Agents accounts, etc. - 735 11 7
General Total £4,815 2 4