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Questions.
V. How are the prisoners classified ?
Answers.
Prisoners before trial.
Debtors.
Convicted prisoners and re-classified as per amend
prison regulation.
VI. Is penal labour*—that is, labour by treadmill,
crank, or shot drill—in force ?
Penal labour is in force principally in the form
stone-breaking; treadmill cannot be resorted to owi
to want of appliances. Crank in force as punishme
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 Centi
Prison.
(b) All classes of prisoners in the Central Prist
excepting those sentenced to imprisonment only.
(c) The usual number of hours for a day's labo
to complete 10,000 revolutions.
VIII. What kind of labour, other than penal labour,
is in use .
Shoe-making, tailoring, carpentering, bakin,
cooking, washing, masonry, weaving, brush an
stocking-making, whitewashing, cleaning, road-makin*
stone- breaking.
IX. If the prisoners are employed beyond the walls
of the gaol, state—
1. On what kind of work they are so employed ?
Cultivating Prison Farm", building; a few convicl
are employed on conservancy, fetching stone for stom
breaking and carrying away manure from Police stable*
road-making, public garden, cleaning and waterin
Government plantations and trees. In 1914 a priso:
was established at Rizokarpaso ; and in 1918 one a
Chrysokhou; the Forest huts in these 2 villages wen
set apart and gazetted as Prisons, and one foreste
appointed as convict guard in charge of each Prison
All short sentence prisoner:- from the neighbourinj
country are detained in these Prisons and are employet
in the Forest Gardens and plantations there.
.. H o w are they supervised ?
B y prison warders and armed escorts of Police, anc
in some cases by convict guards.
3. H o w many escapes of prisoners, while being em–
ployed beyond the gaol, have taken place during each
of the last three years .
4. H o w are the profits of their labour accounted for ?
1916*17, three.
1917-18, one.
1918-19, three ; two from the Limassoi Prison while
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working outside the Prison in the Public Garden;
the one was recaptured within a few hours and the
other three days after the escape was effected; and
one female convict from the Paphos Prison ; she was
recaptured a few hours after the escape was effected.
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 ?
£ s. cp.
Nicosia, Central Prison
8,095 10 3
Larnaca
135 8 3
Limassoi
587 7 1
Paphos
403 13 8
Kyrenia
173 0 4
Famagusta
641 9 4
Crown Agents' accounts, etc
1,287 13 1
General Total
11,324 2 6