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Averages
of 1st period of 1⁄2nd period
• Number previously convicted
138 224
(Number previously Convicted)
Twice 57 102
Number previously convicted
three or more times 41 109
Sentenced to 5 years or more
Sentenced 1 year to 5 years 14 30
103 114
Sentenced 3 months 278 346
Sentenced 3 months or less 2633 2702
388 589
Sentenced less than 12 months
Daily average in prison
Whilst the total number of
persons sentenced to penal
imprisonments has very slightly increased during the last ten years, the daily average number
in Gaol has, on the other hand,
very largely increased, and this increase has taken place during the last quinquennial period and has progressed steadily since 1874. The explanation of this apparent contradiction is,
I believe, to be found in the larger number
of prisoners who have been sentenced during the latter period to long terms of imprisonment; and also in the discontinuance
of the practice of deporting prisoners from the Colony.
5.
That confinement in
the Victoria Gaol has not a
great deterrent effect is an opinion
which I have already expressed
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