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Questions.
V. How are the prisoners classified .
Answers.
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 of
stone-breaking; treadmill cannot be resorted to owing
to want of appliances. Crank in force as punishment
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 ? In
stating hours of treadwheel labour, give,first,the total
cime 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.
(6) 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 10,000 revolutions.
V H I . What 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-breaking]
carpet-making.
IX. If the prisoners are employed beyond the walls
of the gaol, state—
1. O n 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, hav* taken place during each
uf the last three vears ?
Cultivating Prison Farm ; building ; a few convicts
are employed on conservancy, fetching stone for stone-
breaking and carrying away manure from Police stables,
pubhc garden, cleaning and watering Government
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 were
employed daily in re afforestation under the Forest
Department.
A temporary Reformat -*rv Prison was established at
Athalassa Farm on the 16t** April, 1920, where iuve-
nile convicts are employed on husbandry and other
farm works. This has been converted into a Juvenile
Convict Settlement.
The Famagusta, Larnaca. and Kyrenia Prisons were
abolish-d -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, aad
in some cases by convict guards.
1922, three.
1923.. two.
1921, three short sentence convicts escaped during
the year 192*!, one from Dikellia Prison on the night
of the 2nd January, 1924; he was recaptured on the
morning of 3rd. January 1924: one from a working
party employed in the Moat. Nicosia, on 9th August,
1924; he was recaptured on 13th August, 1924 "one
from a working party in the Famagusta Prison vard
on 16th September, 1924; he was recaptured on the
same day. The Juvenile Convict who escaped from
Athalassa Reformatory Prison on the night of 15th
October, 1921, is still at large.