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Questions.
V. flow are the prisoners classified?
VI. Is penal labour—that is, labour by
treadmill, crank, or shot drill—in force?
VII. If so, (a) during what periods of
imprisonment, (b) in respect of what 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?
Answers.
Prisoners before trial.
Debtors.
Convicted prisoners and re-classified as
per amended priaon regulation.
Penal labour is in force principally in the
form of stone-breaking; treadmill cannot be re–
sorted to owing to want ofappliauces. Crank
in force as punishment labour, but it is seldom
used.
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, cooking, washing, dyeing,
masonry, weaving, brush and stocking making,
whitewashing, cleaning, road-making, stone-
breaking, broom-making, cleaning, mat-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, road-making,
Public Garden, cleaning and watering Govern-
ment plantations and trees.
2. H o w are they supervised?
By prison warders and armed escorts of
Police, and in one case by a convict guard.
3. H o w many escapes of prisoners, while
being employed beyond the gaol, have taken
place during each ofthe last three years?
1910-11, 1.
1911-12, 2.
1912-13, 2.
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 ?
£ a. cp.
Nicosia, Central Prison ... 4,887 14 0£
Larnaca
236 8 8
Limassoi
328 0 5
Paphos
263 1 3
Kyrenia
109 14 2
Famagusta
344 5 3
Crown Agents accounts, etc. 862 12 2
General Total
£7,031 16 5£