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Questions.
V. How are the prisoners classified !
Answers.
(a) Prisoners before trial.
(6) Debtors.
(c) Appellants.
(d) Convicted prisoners, who are sub-divided into
classes according to their sentences.
VI. Is penal labour—that is, labour by treadmill,
crank, or shot drill—in force ?
Penal labour is in force principally in the form o
stone-breaking; treadmill cannot be resorted to owini
to want of appliances. Crank is in force as punishment
labour, but is never 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 nours 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 N o . 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,
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. On what kind of work they are so employed .
Cultivating Prison Farm : building ; a few convicts
are emploj-ed on conservancy, fetching stone for stone-
breaking and carrying away manure from Police stables,
public garden, cleaning and watering Government
plantations and trees.
A temporary Reformatory Prison was established at
Athalassa Farm on the 16th Apiil, 1920, where juve–
nile convicts are employed on husbandry and other
farm -works. This has be->n converted into a Juvenile
Convict Settlement.
2. H o w are they supervised ?
B y prison warders and armed escorts of Police, and
in some cases by convict "mards.
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 ?
In 1930, two ; recaptured.
In 1931. two; recaptured.
In 1932, none.