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Questions.
V. How are 4he 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.
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 ?
See answer co 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 onlv.
(c) The usual number of hours for a dav'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 was closed on 10th June, 1926.
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 Kvrenia Prisons were
abolished on the 10th Sept.. 1920," and all convicted
prisoners of over 7 days are transferred to Central
Prison.
2* H o w are they supervised !
B y prison warders and armed escorts of Pohce, and
in some cases by convict guards.
3. H o w many escapes of prisoners, while being em–
ployed beyond the gaol, have taken place during each
of +he last three vears .
1923, two.
1924, three.
1926, five short sentence convicts escaped during
the year 1926, one from the Rizocarpasso Prison while
employed in the gardens on 7th March 1927 ; he was
recaptured on the same day - one from the Famagusta
Prison while employed on cleanin-x in the District
Hospital on 16th May, 11)26; he is still at large: one
from the Athalassa Prison while emploved outside the
Prison on 20th July, 1926 ; he was recaptured on the
same day : one from the Famasrusta Prison while
employed in the moat on 7th Aucust. 1920; he was
recaptured on the same dav : one from the Famasrusta
Prison while employed in the Hospital Garden on*17th
September, 1926 ; he was recaptured on the same dav
The Juvenile Convict who escuped from Athalassa
Reformatory Prison on the night of 15th October,
1921, is still at large.