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Questions.
XI. What was the annual amount of the
prisoners' earnings during the year ?
X I L W h a t are the number ot the hours
allotted for sleep ? Amd, if sleep is in associa–
tion, are the dormitories lighted; and how
often are they patrolled during the night ?
XIII. W h a t were the number and nature
of the punishments inflicted for offences com–
mitted by prisoners undergoing imprisonment.?
X I V . Is there, or are there, any Chaplain
or Chaplains of any, and what, religious
persuasions ?
X V . Are religious services regularly, or
otherwise, performed for the benefit oi the
prisoners of any, and, if any, what, religious
persuasion ?
X V I . Are R o m a n Catholic Priests and
Dissenting Ministers allowed free access to
prisoners of their o w n persuasion? and are tney
apprised when prisoners of their respective
persuasions enter the prison?
Answers.
Taking an average of the number of
prisoners employed on Public Works and valuing
their labour at 4-^cp. per man-per diem for stone
breaking and 6cp. for other work, the value of
the services of the convicts during the year m a y
be put at £1,307 4s. 6cp. The estimated
value of the labour of prisoners employed on
industrial work (shoe-making, tailoring, weav–
ing, dyeing, carpentering, brush-making,
stockingmakmg and baking)iis £2,613 18s. Ocp.
The amount derivedfrorn the sale of broken
stone to Municipalities, etc., and paid into the
Treasury was £5 4s. 2cp.
1.978-J- cubic yards of broken stone were
supplied to the Public Works Department for
which no payment was received.
Total
£3,926 6s. 8cp.
In winter 10 hours, in summer 8 hours.
Sleep is in association in the District Prisons.
The passages, corridors and wards are well
lighted. T_ey are constantly patrolled during
the night, and are visited frequently and at
uncertain hours by the Goveruor of the Prison.
Each prisoner sleeps in 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 2
Solitary confinement, with bread
and water 1 to 5' davs
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Solitary confinement 1 to 9 days 9
Bread and water 1 to 7 davs
3S1
Dark Cell
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There are no Chaplains attached to the
prisons. Priests of all denominations are
admitted at the request of the prisoners.
In the District Prisons no religious services
are held, except at Paphos and Larnaca for
Greek-Christians.' The Greek-Christians con–
fess and receive the sacrament on then- chief
religious festivals. In the Central Prison a
service for Moslems is held on Fridays and
on alternate Sundays a Priest or llayman
attends and ministers to the members of the
Greek Church. The attendance of the Hodja
has been regular and that of the Priest and
Layman has been less frequent this year, viz :
on" 5 occasions. A Religious and General
Instructor (in addition to the Priest or Layman)
appointed from 6rh May, 1906. for Greek.
Do.
do.
do.
for Moslem
attendance of Moslem and Greek Teachers to
school classes and for religious instruction has
been regular.
Access is allowed to priests of all denomi–
nation--. They are not apprised when prisoners
are admitted, but. notice would be given if
prisoners expressed a wish to see them.
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