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Questions.
4 How are the profits of their labour accounted for t
X. What was the total annual cost of the prisons
•during the year ?
X I . What was the annual amount of the prisoners'
•earnings during the year ?
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XII. What is the number of the hours allotted for
sleep . And, if sleep is in association, are the dormi–
tories lighted ; and how often are they patrolled during
•the nizbt 1
XIII. What were the number and nature of the
punishments inflicted for offences committed by priso–
ners undergoing imprisonment ?
XIV. Is there, or are there, any Chaplain or Chap*
lains of any, and what, religious persuasions ?
XV. Are religious services regularly, or otherwise,
performed for the benefit of the prisoners of any, and,
if any, what, religious persuasion ?
X V I . Are R o m a n Catholic Priests and Dissenting
Ministers allowed free access to prisoners of their own
persuasion! A n d are they apprised when prisoners
of their respective persuasions enter the prison ?
X V I I . W h a t provision is m a d e for the education of
prisoners !
Answers...
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Nicosia, Central Prison .. i,
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904 15 7
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461 17 2
Famagusta
734 8 5
Crown Agents' accounts, etc
17 .0 8
General Total -. .•'••'i ;'../:*. V." £15,060 18
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Tailing an average of the number of prisoners em–
ployed on public works and valuing their labour at
i\cp. per m a n per diem for stone-breaking and 6ep
for other work, and estimating the value of prisoner?
labour on constructional work for the Public £ W o r k s
Department at 1*. per diem, the value of the 'services
of the convicts during the year m a y be put at
£1,919. 12J. lcp. The estimated value of the labour
of prisoners employed on industrial work (shoe-making,
tailoring, weaving, carpentering, stocking-making'
farming and baking) is £2,594. 2*. Ocp. The estimated
value of the labour of those employed in the domestic
service of the Central Prison is £990. 6s. 2cp... ;-.; gnjjnb
Eleven cubic yards of broken stone were supplied to -
the Public Works Department for which no payment
was received, and 36 cubic yards to the Municipality
of Paphos for which £1. 4*. Ocp. was received.
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Prison labour was supplied to the Municipality of
Paphos during the year for which the sum of
£8. 4*. Ocp. was received.
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ToUl, £5,513. 8i. 3cp.
In winter 10 hours, in summer S hours. . Sleep is in
association in the District Prisons. The passages, cor–
ridors, and wards are well lighted. They are constantly
patrolled during the night, and are visited frequently
and at uncertain hours by the Governor of the Prison.
Each prisoner sleeps in a separate cell in the Central
Prison.
One warder is stationed in each corridor or (in the
Central Prison) block.
Solitary confinement, with bread and water, 1 to
7 days
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Bread and water 1 to 7 days
360
Flogging (12 strokes) .. ..
2
There are no Chaplains attached to the 'prisons.
Priests of all denominations are admitted at the request
of the prisoners.
In the District Prisons no religious services are held,
except at Paphos for Greek-Christians. The Greek-
Christiana confess and receive the sacrament on then-
chief religious festivals. In the Central Prison a
service for Moslems is held on Fridays and on
Sundays a priest or layman attends and ministers
to the members of the Greek Church. The attendance
of the hodja and that of the priest and layman has been
regular. A religious and general instructor (in addi–
tion to the priest or layman) appointed from 6th Mav,
1906, for Greek; also for Moslem. Attendance of
Moslem and Greek teachers to school classes and for
religious instruction has been regular.
Access is allowed to priests of all denominations.
They are not apprised when prisoners are admitted,
but notice would be given if prisoners expressed a wish
to see them.
In Central Prison 3 classes of one hour each are held *
weekly ria"District Prisons there "are *no" schools;-but
well-conducted prisoners w h o can read are allowed to'