Basic HTML Version
406
* * i * *
Questions.
XVII. What provision is made for the education of
prisoners \
XVlll. O n what oonditions-
prisoomeat granted ?
axe remismons of im-
.-_.:.•
.Inswers.
In Central Prison 3 classes of one hour each are held
weekly; in District Prisons there are no schools, but
well-conducted prisoners who can read are allowed to
have educational and religious books of their respective
persuasions.
Prisoners of good behaviour and industrious in labour
sentenced to not less than two years are, if males, after
three-fourths, or, if females, after two-thirds of their
term of imprisonment has expired, recommended to the-
Governor for remission of their sentence, with, or
without, Ticket of Leave. Prisoners under a sentence
of less than two years but not less than one month
earn by good conduct and industry a remission of one-
sixth of their sentence.
X I X . Have Coroner's Inquests been held on every
occasion of a death in prison during the past year ?
and what were the verdicts !
Thirteen prisoners died in prison during the past year
as a result of execution. No inquest was held, but the
Medical Onicer certified in each case that death was
due to dislocation of the cervical vertebrae.
One prisoner died in the Larnaca Prison. An inquest
was held bv the Coroner and the verdict was " Natural
death ".
X X . i. What was the sanitary state of the prisons
during the year ?
Central Prison, Nicosia .
Larnaca
Limassoi
Papbos
Kyrenia
Famagusta
Very good.
2. What were the prevailing diseases .
Rheumatism, malarial fever, diarrhoea, diseases of the
digestive and respiratory system, influenza, dysentery,
dyspepsia, diseases of skin, syphilis, constipation.
hernia, colic, anaemia, bronchial catarrh, debility
X X I . What are, shortly, the rules as to Diet.
Extra Diet allowed to prisoners earning and
keeping 1 or 2 Badges.
:
aadav
Tuesday ..
Fridav
'25 drams Olives.
30 drams Buli^ir.
10 drams Olive-oil.
( 1 cup Turkish Coffee.
( I mug of Tea.
WEEKLY I>[I-:TARI:
2 dava
DIET A R T No. 1.
250 drams Bread
3 days
I da;
1 dar
I
J
25 „ Cheese
250 „ Bread
60 „ Fresh Vegetables
10 „ Oil
250
Bread
75 „ Cooked meat free of bone
o
(
< ., Rice before being cooked
250 „ Bread
50
Bulgur or Bakla
I 10 ., Oil
DtKTABT No. 2.
The >ame as Dietary No. 1 with the addition uf 50 drams of
Broad for each cermet.
DlKTART No. 3.
Daily 25t» drams of Bread,
One day 4<*» drams uiires.
next day *>0 drams fresh Vegetables as directed in Dietary No. I.
DlETART No. 4.
Punishment diet for all prisoners.
m . i 200 drams Bread
u
*'*-
r
\ Water. Unlimited
la addition to above, fresh fruit in limited quantities m a r b*
supplied when so ordered by the Medical Officer of the Prison ;
also extra diet of 40 drams olives and 40 drams raisins are
sapplied once a week, ix., raisins on Tuesdays and olives oa
Saturdays to all long sentence male and female prisoners during
che months when no fruit is given.