:
11. I need hardy and that an cntirely exceptional act of the kind
bearing on the strick
has no
policy
that I am confident should be
carried out in Stoughtons, and that
are carrying out, in the remmision of prisoners' sentences.
I athere to the opinion expreped in my despatch 1.50 of the 12th July 1877, think the release
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in one day of thirty
thirly nine prisoners which took place three months before my arrival, when but one
third of
their sentences And
expired, and the conduct in trison
them of come of was described
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by the Luperintendent as very, bat"
was not conducive to prison discipline. Sir Arthur Kennedy however literally compelled
to do this because the Stoushong
was
my
Gaol
totally inadequate to hold the number of prisoners then in confinement. In Despatch 10:33 of 13th June 1877 I reported that the Chinese bricosus instead of having from 700 to 1000
cubic feet of
air had
only 258 and that in 1876 four hundred chinese prisoners in apociated cells had less than 190 cubic
feet per prisoner. Looking to the