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Questions.
V. Kow are the prisoners classified ?
Answers
Prisoners before trial.
Debtors.
Convicted prisoners and re-classified as per amended
prison regulation.
VT. Is penal labour—that is, labour by treadmill,
crank, or shot drill—in force ?
Penal labour is in force principally in the form of
stone-breaking ; treadmill cannot be resorted to owing
to want of appliances. Crank in force as punishment
labour, but it is seldom used.
VII. If so, (a) during what periods of imprisonment,
(6) 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, etc.; secondly, the length
of spells and intervals of rest.
See answer to question No. VI.
(a) During all periods of imprisonment in the Central
Prison.
(6) All classes of prisoners in the Central Prison
excepting those sentenced to imprisonment only.
(c) The usual number of hours for a day's labour
to complete 10,000 revolutions.
VIII. W h a t kind of labour, other than penal labour,
is in use ?
Shoe-making, tailoring, carpentering, baking,
cooking, washing, masonry, weaving, brush and
stocking-making, whitewashing, cleaning, road-making,
stone- breaking.
IX. If the prisoners are employed beyond the walls
of the gaol, state—
I. O n what kind of work they are so employed ?
Cultivating Prison Farm, building; 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
G o vemment plantations and trees. In 1914 a prison
was established as an experiment, at Rizokarpaso ; the
Forest hut in the village was set apart and gazetted as
a prison and a forester appointed as convict guard in
charge of the prison. All the short sentence prisoners
from the neighbouring country, instead of being
marched into Famagusta, were detained during the year
1917-18 at Rizokarpaso Prison and they were employed
in the Forest Garden and plantations there.
2. H o w are they supervised 1
B y prison warders and armed escorts of Police, and
in some cases bv convict guards.
3. H o w m a n y escapes of prisoners, while being em–
ployed beyond the gaol, have taken place during each
of the last three years ?
1915-16, one. ,
1916-17, three.
1917-18, one; from the Famagusta Prison while
working outside the Prison collecting stone for
breaking; he was recaptured four days after the
escape was effected.
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 ?
£ 8. cp.
Nicosia, Central Prison
7,089 2 5
Larnaca
319 9 5
Limassoi
641 19 8
Paphos ..
472 19 6
Kyrenia
217 3 6
Famagusta
605 11 6
Rizokarpaso ..
9 12 0
Crown Agents' accounts, etc
311 7 0
General Total
9,667 6 0