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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,
orank, or shot drill—in force 1
Penal labour is in force principally in the form
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stone-breaking; treadmill cannot be resorted to owir
to want of appliances. Crank in force as punishmei
labour, but seldom used
VII. If so, during what periods of imprisonments,
in respect of what classes of prisoners, and during how
m a n y hours, is such penal labour enforced 1 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 Cento
Prison.
(6) All classes of prisoners in the Central Priso
excepting those sentenced to imprisonment only.
(c) The usual number of hours for a day's labou
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, stocking* making
white-washing, cleaning, road-making, stone-breakine
carpet-making.
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IX. If the prisoners are employed beyond the walls
of the gaol, state—
1. On what kind of work they are so employed !
2. H o w are they supervised .
3. How many escapes of prisoners, while being em–
ployed beyond the gaol, ha*?*» taken place during each
of the last three years ?
Cultivating Prison Farm; building ; a few convict*
are employed on conservancy, fetching stone for stone-
breaking and carrying away manure from Police stables,
public garden, cleaning and watering Governmeni
plantations and trees.
The Prison at Dikellia which was closed on 31st
March, 1922, was re-opened on 15th March, 1923, and
10 short sentence prisoners from Larnaca Prison are
employed daily in re-afforestation under the Forest
Department. The convicts who were transferred from
the Central Prison to Larnaca and Kyrenia for the
purpose of building a sea-wall, and to Limassoi for
constructional purposes were re-transferred to the
Central Prison on 17th March, 1923, and 10th June
1923.
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A temporary Reformatory Prison was established at
Athalassa Farm on the 16th April, 1920, where juve-
mle convicts are employed on husbandry and other
farm works. This has been converted into a JuvenUe
Convict Settlement.
The Famagusta, Larnaca, and Kyienia Prisons were
abolished on the 19th Sept., 1920, and all convicted
prisoners of over 7 days are transferred to Central
Prison.
By prison warders and armed escorts of Police, and
in some cases by convict guards.
1921, three'.
1922, three.
1923, two short sentence convicts escaped during
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dikellia Prison on the night
of 9th September, 1923, and one while employed on
Pubhc Works, Nicosia, on 26th September, 1923. The
former was recaptured on the night of lst October,
1923, and the latter on the 27th September, 1923.
The Juvenile Convict w h o escaped from Athalassa
Reformatory Prison on the night of 15th October,
ism, is still at large.