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Questions.
•4 How are the profits of their labour accounted for ?
X. What was the total annual cost of the prisons
during the year T
X L What was the annual amount of the prisoners'
earnings during the year .
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 ni^ht .
XIII. What were the number and nature of the
punishments inflicted for ofiences 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 .
XVI. Are R o m a n Catholic Priests and Dissenting
Ministers allowed free access to prisoners of their own
persuasion . And are they apprised when prisoners
of their respective persuasions enter the prison t
Answers.
Profits are paid into the Treasury or are accounted
for by the Public Works Department.
£ s. co.
Nicosia, Central Prison 11,270 1 8
Larnaca .. .. 501 3 .&
Limassoi ' .. .. ""'./ $oi 16 ' 0
Paphos .. " 7 8 5 10 I
Kyrenia 362 2 3
Famagusta 6S8 6 5
Crown Agents' accounts, etc 56 9 5
General Total £14,465 10 0
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Taking an average of the number of prisoners em–
ployed on public works and valuing their labour at
4-Vcp. per man per diem for stone-breaking and 6ep.
for other work, and estimating the value of prisoners'*
labour on constructional work for the Public Works
Department at Is. per diem, the value of the services
of the convicts during the year may be put at
£1,571. Is. lcp. The estimated value of the labour
of prisoners employed on industrial work (shoe-making,
tailoring, weaving, carpentering, stocking-making,
farming and baking) is £2,565. 15*. 4cp. The estimated
value of the labour of those employed in the domestic
service of the Central Prison is £809. Is. lcp.
The estimated value of labour of the juveniles, and
juvenile adult and adult prisoners emploved at
Athalassa Prison is £462. 0. 4.
432 tons of broken stone were supplied to the
Railway Department, 2 cubic yards to the Municipality
of Famagusta, 150 cubic yards to the Municipality of
Paphos and 221 cubic yards to the Public Works
Department, for which no payment was received.
Prison labour was supplied to the Municipality of
Paphos during the year for which the sum' of
£7. 14*. 'Sep. was received.
Total, £5,416. os. Ocp.
In winter 10 hours, in summer 8 hours. SleeD 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 freouently
and at uncertain hours by the Governor of the Prison.
Each prisoner 3leeps in a separate ceil 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 ' ^«
Bread and water 1 to 7 days.. .. *JIQ
Flogging (12 strokes) *' "" '' ' 4
There are no Chaplains attached to the prisons.
r/riests of all denominations are admitted at the request
or the prisoners.
In the District Prisons no religious services are h<*ld
except at Paphos for Greek-Christians. The Greek-
Chnstians confess and receive the sacrament on their
l^LFefUgl°S feSti7als- ** the Ceatra- -?ri*™ a
service for Moslems is held on Fridays and on
bundays a priest or layman attends and ministers
£ lil ^ D e r 3 4 ° i t h e Greek Church * The attendance
r1 ;^. f "$ that °fthe P f i e s f c a n d I a v ™ n ha. been
tbn to th; n ^ T U S , aad geaeral k»t™ctor (in addi-
906 f r ? ° f a y m a n ) aPPoi*ted ^om 6th May,
X™iemlndTk i^°J0r MoaIem - Attendance of
S , . ^ ^ f ^ 6 ™ *° scho<>1 oLuww and for
reh-rious instruction has been regular
The?^L ^aU °Wed *? p_ie,tg of°al1 denominations.
1 When p r i 9 u e r 3 arep r i S n e n e ressed a h