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report of the Gaol Committee to which I refer in another despatch shows that in the Hongkong Gaol there is no moral and industrial training of any kind.
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In one of the despatches printed in the papers relating to the improvement of Prison Discipline in the Colonies and transmitted last year to Hong Kong, Your Lordship addressing the Governor of British Guiana says:
"The principles on which you should work are no doubt well known to you. They are the separation of youthful from adult criminals, by placing the former in an industrial or reformatory establishment; the enforcement of the separate system amongst adults; the establishment of penal labour by tread wheel, crank, shot drill, or similar means for prisoners in the first stage of long sentences, and during the whole or the greater portion of short ones; and, lastly, the moral and industrial training of those prisoners whose sentences are long enough to warrant the conclusion that a system of reformatory training will...
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