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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 ?
XI. What was the annual amount of the prisoners'
earnings during the year .
XII. What is the number of the hours allotted for
sleep T And, if sleep is in association, are the dormi–
tories lighted ; and how often are they patrolled during
the night t
XIII. What were tbe 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-
IAIOS
of any, and what, religious persuasions .
XV. Are religious services regularly, or otherwise,
performed for the benefit of the prisoners of any, and,
ii 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 1
Answer*.
Profits are paid into the Treasury o
r
are accounted
for by the Pubhc Works Department.
£
*. p.
Nicosia, Central Prison
12,028 5 8
Larnaca
657 1 5
Limassoi
756 IS 0
Paphos
713 7 8
Kyrenia
523 6 2
Famagusta
957 7 3
Crown Agents' accounts, etc
20 0 0
General Total *. £15,656 6 8
Taking an average of the number of prisoners em–
ployed on public works and valuing their labour at
4\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 Is. per diem, the value of the services
of the convicts during tbe year may be put at
£3,265. 3-?. Sp The estimated value of the labour
of prisoners employed on industrial work (shoe-making,
tailoring, weaving, carpentering, stocking-making,
farming and baking) is £2,378. 2s. lip. The estimated.
value of the labour of those employed in the domestic
service of the Prisons is £1,057. 9s. Zp.
The estimated value of labour of the juveniles, and
juvenile adult and adidt prisoners emploved at
Athalassa Prison is £470. 11a. Op.
70 tons of broken stone were supplied to the
Railway Department, 50 cubic yards to the Public
Works Department, 34 cubic yards to the Municipality
of Paphos, for which no payment was received.
Prison labour was supplied to the Municipality cf
Paphos during the year for which the sum of £7. 9a' Zp.
was received.
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For broken stone supplied to the Municipality of
Limassoi tbe sum of £3. 9s. 0j>. was received.
The estimated value of prison labour to Larnaca
Hospital was £33. 19*. 2p.
Total, £7,216. 3*. 8ip.
In winter 10 hours, in summer 8 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 tbe 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
10 days
4
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Bread and water 1 to 10 days
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Flogging (12, 18 and 24 strokes)
3
There axe 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~sncrament on their
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.