INTERROGATORY XXIX.
The means used for the identification of old offenders; and the proportion
of convicted prisoners who are known to have been more than once, more than twice, and more than three times convicted.
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The great similarity in features, height Color of hair, and other particulars, with the frequent changes in the Prison Stoff and Police render it very difficult to identify
doubt pass in and
Old
offenders among
the Chinese, who no
out of Gool fugruently without detection. Every frisoner
m.
admission to this Gool
and all marks for
found
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of
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his
minutely examined,
person recorded.
staff of this Prison have occasionally
been sent to Victoria Gaol with the view to identifying Old offenders; at other times suspected prisoners have been sent here with a similar object_ by these means a have been identified.
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