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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
daring the year ?
XI. W h a t 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 nieht ?
XIII. What were the number and nature of the
punishments inflicted for offences committed by priso–
ners undergoing imprisonment .
XIV. Is there, or axe 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 o w n
persuasion . A n d are they apprised when prisoners
of their respective persuasions enter the prison .
A nsieers.
Profits are paid into the Treasury or are accounted
for by the Public Works Department.
£ tf. p.
Nicosia, Central Prison
10
;
816 3 8
Larnaca
564 9 1
Limassoi
73S 4 4
Paphos
676 7 3
Kyrenia
44S 14 5
Famagusta
83S 10 1
Crown Agents'accounts, etc
20 0 0
General Total £14,102 9 4
Taking an average of the number of prisoners em–
ployed on public works and valuing their labour at
ii-p. per man per diem for stone-breaking and 6p.
for other work, and estimating the value of prisoners'
labour on constructional work for the Public Works
Department at IJ. per diem, the value of the service*
of the convicts during the year m a y be put at
£2,991. 13.*. lp. The estimated value of the labour
of prisoners employed on industrial work (shoe-making,
tailoring, weaving, carpentering, stocking-making,
fanning and baking) is £2.331. 10*. 4lp. The estimated
value of the labour of those employed in the domestic
service of the Prisons is £995. Is. 6p.
The estimated value of labour of the juveniles, and
juvenile adult and adult prisoners employed at
Athalassa Prison is £406. IBs. Op.
122 tons of broken stone were supplied to the
Railway Department, 104 cubic yards to the Public
Works Department, 72 cubic yards to the Municipality
of Paphos, 6 cubic yards to the Municipality of
Famagusta, for which no payment was received.
Prison labour was supplied to the Municipality of
Paphos during the year for which the sum of £6. 16s. 4p.
was received.
For broken stone supplied to the Municipality of
Limassoi tbe sum of £2. lis. lp. was received.
The estimated value of prison labour to Larnaca
Hospital was £26. 12*. 6p.
Total, £6.761. os. Up.
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 i3 stationed in each corridor or (in the
Central Prison) block.
Solitarv confinement, with bread and water, 1 to
10 days
79
Bread and water 1 to 10 day3
271
Flogging (S, 24, 24, 24 and 24 strokes) .. .. 5
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-
Christians confess and receive the sacrament on their
chief religious festivals. In the Central Prison a
service for Moslems is held on Fridays and on
Sundavs 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 May,
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.
Thev are not apprised when prisoners are admitted,
but "notice would be given if prisoners expressed a wish
to see them.