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Questions.
V.
How
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, (£) 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?
2. H o w are they supervised?
Answers.
Prisoners, before trial.
Debtors.
Convicted prisoners and re-classified as
per amended prison regulation.
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, 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 onlv.
(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.
Cultivating Prison Farm, Tending sis
Cows—milking, breeding—this work is done by
juvenile and juvenile aduk prisoners, buiding;
a few convicts are employed on conservancy,
fetching stone for stone-breaking and carrying
away manure from Police stables, road-making,
Public Garden, cleaning: and watering: Govern-
menr plantations and trees.
By prison warders and armed escorts of
Police, and in some cases by convict guards.
3. H o w many escapes of prisoners, while
being employed beyond the gaol, have taken
place during each of the last three years ?
1911-12, 2.
1912-13. 2.
1913-14. 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. W h a t was the total annual cost of the
prisons during the year?
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Nicosia, Central Prison ... 4,979
Larnaca
229
Limassoi
394
•Paphos
315
Kyrenia
64 13
Famagusta
357 6
Crown Agents accounts, etc. 791 6
General Total £7.132 5
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