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Question*.
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 .
stone-breaking; treadmill cannot be resorted to owix,
to want of appliances. Crank is in force as punishmei
labour, but is never used
VII. If so, during what periods of imprisonments,
in respect of what classes of prisoners, and daring how
many hoars, 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 Centn
Prison.
(6) All classes of prisoners in the Central Prise
excepting those sentenced to imprisonment only.
(c) The usual number of hours for a day's labot
to complete 10,000 revolutions.
V H I . W h a t 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, atone-breaking
carpet-making, farming.
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 convict
are employed on conservancy, fetching stone for stone
breaking and carrying away manure from Police stable*
public garden, cleaning and watering Governmen
plantations and trees.
A temporary Reformatory Prison was established a
Athalassa Farm on the 16t"h April, 1920, where juve
nile convicts are employed on husbandry and othe
farm works. This has been converted into a Juvenil
Convict Settlement.
2. H o w are they supervised !
B y prison warders and armed escorts of Police, an<
in some cases by convict guards.
3. H o w m a n y escapes of prisoners, while being em–
ployed beyond the gaol, have taken place daring each
of the last three years ?
In 1931, two; recaptured.
In 1932, none.
In 1933, none.