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Question*.
4. How are the profits of their labour accounted for .
X. What was the total annual
cost of
the prisons
during the year 1
X.1. What was the annual amount of the prisoners,
earnings during
the
year 1
Answers.
Profits are paid into the Treasury or are accounted
for by the Public Works Department.
£ s.. cp.
Nicosia, Central Prison
10,292 4 5
Larnaca
1.106 19 6
Limassoi
924 11 6
Paphos
611 9 8
Kyrenia
307 13 6
Famagusta
967 12 6
Crown Agents' accounts, etc
1,956 14 4
General Total 16,167 6 5
Taking an average of the number of prisoners em–
ployed on public works and valuing their labour at
4icp. per man per diem for stone-breaking and 6cp.
for other works, the value of the services of the convicts
during the year may be put at £1,075 Is. Icp. The
estimated value of the labour of prisoners employed
on industrial work (shoe-making, tailoring, weaving,
carpentering, brush-making, stocking-making, and
baking) is £2.496 9*. (Sep.
911 cubic yards of broken stone were supplied to
the Public Works Department for which no payment
was received.
Total. £3,571 lis. icp.
XII. What is the number of the hours allotted for
sleep ? And, if sleep is in association, are the dormi–
tories lighted ; and how often are they patrolled during
the night .
XIII. What were the number and nature of the
punishments inflicted for offences committed by priso–
ners undergoing imprisonment ?
XIV. Is there, or are there, any Chaplain or Chap–
lains of any, and what, religious persuasions .
XV.
Are
religious services regularly, or otherwise,
performed for the benefit of the prisoners of any. and,
if any, what, religious persuasion ?
In winter 10 hours, in summer S hours. Sleep is in
association in the District Prisons. The passages, cor–
ridors, and wards are well lighted. They are constantly
patrolled during the night, and are visited frequentlv
and at uncertain hours by the Governor of the Prison.
Each prisoner sleeps in a separate cell in the Cent
Prison.
One warder is stationed in each corridor or (in the
Central Prison) Block.
Flogged, not exceeding 2." iashes 3
Solitary confinement, with bread and water 1 to
6 days
51
Solitary confinement 1 to 9 da3*s
—
Bread and water 1 to 7 davs
614
Dark Cell
"
14
Kept in chains for 2 months
4
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 h
except at Paphos and Larnaca for Greek-Christians.
The Greek-Christians confess and receive the sacrament
on their chief religious festivals. In the Central Prison
a service tor Moslems is held on Fridays and on alter–
nate Sundays a priest or layman 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 more frequent this year, viz. : on 13
occasions. A religious and general instructor -.in addi–
tion to the priest or layman; appointed from Oth Mav.
1906, for Greek; also for Moslem. Attendance of
Moslem and Greek teachers to school classes and for
relicious instruction has been regular.
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