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Questions.
V. How are the prisoners classified .
Arwweri.
Prisoners before trial.
Debtors.
Convicted prisoners and re-classified as per amended
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 of
stone-breaking ; treadmill cannot be resorted to owing
to want of appliances. Crank in force as punishment-
labour, but seldom used.
VII. If ao, during what periods of imprisonments,
in respect of what classes of prisoners, and during how
many 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.
VIII. What kind of labour, other than penal labour,
is in use .
IX. If the prisoners are employed beyond the walls
of the gaol, state—
1. O n what kind of work they are so employed t
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 ?
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.
Shoe-making, tailoring, carpentering, baking,.
cooking, washing, masonry, weaving, stocking* making'
white-washing, cleaning, road-making, stone-breaking'
carpet-making.
Cultivating Prison Farm ; building; a few convicts
are employed on conservancy, fetching stone for stone-
breaking and carrying away manure from Police stables,
public garden, cleaning and watering Government
plantations and trees. Twenty prisoners transferred
from the Central Prison to Famagusta District Prison
are employed under the Forest Department at the
Fresh Water Lake Plantation, Famagusta.
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 ia re afforestation under the Forast
Department, until 31st December, 1924, when the
establishment was increased to 100 convicts of over
6 months and under 2 years imprisonment transferred
from Central Prison and Larnaca District Prison.
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 been converted into a Juvenile
Convict Settlement.
The Famagusta. Larnaca. and Kyrenia 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.
1922, three.
1923, two.
192-i, three.
1925, two convicts escaped during the year 1925,
one short sentence prisoner from Rizocarpasso Prison
while employed at the Rizocarpasso Garden on 27th
January, 1925; he was recaptured on lst February,
1925. One long sentence prisoner from Dikeilia Prison
on the night of 13th September, 1925; he was
recaptured on 16th September, 1925. The Juvenile
Convict who escaped from Athalassa Reformatory
Prison on the night of 15th October, 1921, is still
at large.