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Questions.
V. How are the prisoners classified ?
Answcra.
Prisoners before trial.
Debtors.
Convicted prisoners and re-classified as per amended
prison regulation.
VI. ts 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 owin-j
to want of appliances. Crank in force as punishment
labour, but seldom used.
VIE. 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
ttatine 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 co 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.
VIII. What kind of labour, other than penal labour,
|s 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. On what kind of work they are so employed ?
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.
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.
2. H o w are they supervised \
B y prison warders and armed escorts of Police, and
in some cases by convict guards.
3. H o w many escapes of prisoners, while being em–
ployed beyond the craol. ha*;** taken place during each
o* th© last three years ?
1925,'two.
1926, five.
1927, two short sentence convicts : one from the
Larnaca Prison while empioved in cleaning the Larnaca
hosp-tiu on 3rd .September 1927 - he was recaptured
on iSth .September, 1927 • and one from the Fama–
gusta Prison while employed in cleaning the Fama–
gusta Police Barracks on 21st October, 1927 • he was
recaptured on 28th October, 1927. The Juvenile
Convict who escaped from Athalassa Reformatory
Prison on the night of 15th October, 1921, and the
convict who escaped from the Famagusta Prison on
16th May, 1926, are still at large.