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Questions.
V.
How
are the prisoners classified .
Answers.
Prisoners before trial.
Debtors.
Convicted prisoners and re-classified as per amendei
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 o
stone-breaking ; treadmill cannot be resorted to owin
to want of appliances. Crank in force as punishmen
labour, but it is seldom used.
Vll. if so, during what periods of imprisonments,
in respect of what classes of prisoners, and during how
many hours, is such penal labour enforced ? In
.--tating 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 Xo. VI.
(a) During ail period of imprisonment in the Centra
Prison.
(6) All classes of prisoners in the Central Prisoi
excepting those sentenced to imprisonment onlv.
(c) The usual number of hours for a dav's labou
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-makins
stone-breaking, carpet-making.
IX. If the prisoners are employed beyond the walls
of the gaol, state—
1. Ou what kind of work they are so employed ?
2. H o w are they supervised ?
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 ?
Cultivating Prison Farm, building ; a few convict
are emplo3*ed on conservancy, fetching stone for stone
breaking and carrying away manure from Police stables
road-making, public garden, cleaning and waterin,
Government plantations and trees. Jn 1914 a priso;
was established at Rizokarpaso ; and in 191S 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 prisoners from the neighbourin:
country are detained in these Prisons and are empiovei
in the Forest Gardens and plantations there.
On 10th February, 1920, a Prison was established a
Dikellia in the building known as " Dikellia Quarautim
Station.'' Convicts from Paphos, Limassoi and Fama
gusta Districts whose sentences are 6 months an<
under 2 years are drafted to this Prison. They ap
employed in re-aforestation under the Forest Depart
ment.
A temporary Reformatory Prison was established a
Athalassa Farm on the 16th April, 1920, where Juve
nile convicts are employed on husbundry and othe
farm works.
The Famagusta. Larnaca. and Kyienia Prisons wer
abolished on the 19th Sept., 1920, and all convict©
prisoners of over 7 days are transfered to Centra
Prison.
By prison warders and armed escorts of Police, am
m some cases by convict guards.
191S-1919, three.
191D-1920, four.
1920 three prisoners escaped during the vearendini
JOth December, 1920; two from a party "workinc oi
the Prison Farm on the 22nd April and SOth
Jun-
respectively, they were recaptured the same dav. O n
Juvenile convict escaped from Athalassa Reformator
Prison on the oth .July, 1920 ; he was recaptured thi
sam day. The tiiree prisoners who were still at larc<
on 31st December, 1919, were recaptured, one on th.
-nd February. 1920 and two one th 9th April. 1920