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Question*.
V. blow are the prisoners classified ?
Answer*.
Prisoners before trial.
Debtors.
Convicted prisoners and re-classified as per amended
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 al
stone-breaking ; treadmill cannot be resorted to
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to want of appliances. Crank in force as punishment
labour, but it is seldom used.
VII., If so, during what periods of imprisonments,
in respect of what classes of prisoners, and daring bow
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.
(b) 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 lO.OQ^f^Jlutions.
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, carpet-making.
LX. If the prisoners are employed beyond the walls
of the gaol, state—
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1. On what kind of work they are so employed 1
2. H o w are they supervised !
3. How many escapes of prisoners, while being em–
ployed beyond the gaol, have taken place during each
of the last three vears .
Cultivating Prison Farm, building ; a few convicts
are employed on conservancy, fetching stone for stone-
breaking and carrving away manure from Police stables,
public garden, cleaning and watering Government
plantations and trees.
The Prison at Dikeilia was closed on Slst March,
1922. temporarily and all prisoners detained there were
transferred to Larnaca for the purpose of building a
sea-wall. O n tho 16ch March, 1922, 50 prisoners were
also transferred from rhe Cen*-*ral Prison to Kyrenia for
the same
On the loth November' 1922, 50
prisoners were transferred to Limassoi for constructional
purposes.
A temporary Reformatory Prison was established at
Athalassa Farm on the 16th April, 1920, where juve–
nile convicts are employed on husbandry and other
farm works. This has now been concerted into a
Juvenile Convict Settlement.
The Famagusta. Larnaca. and Kyienia Prisons were
abolished on the 19th Sept.. 1920* and ail convicted
prisoners of over 7 days are transferred to Central
Prison.
B y prison warders and armed escorts of PoUce, and
in some cases by'couvict guards. *
1920-1921.. three.
1921. three.
1922, three juvenile convict escaped from Athalassa
Reformatory Prison on the night of the 2nd September,
1922. They were recaptured on the 3rd September,
1922. The -juvenile convict who escaped from Athalassa
Reformatory Prison on the ni-zht of* the loth October,
1921 is still at large.