of prisoners confined in Gaol for each month of the year from 1876 to 1882.
Although the daily average still keeps high owing to the longer sentences awarded, yet the admissions have not been less during 1882 than during the three previous years 1881, 1880, and 1879.
The conduct of the prisoners has been generally good. Corporal punishment has been resorted to but once during the past year for breach of Gaol discipline, the recipient being a very badly conducted and violent prisoner.
I have found Chinese prisoners easier to control than the English convicts at home, and the knowledge that the Superintendent in conjunction with a visiting Justice has power to flog, is almost sufficient to keep the badly conducted prisoners in order.
The number of Gaol offences may appear bright, but 2/3rds of them are trivial such as talking and quarrelling in the cells, for which class of offences would naturally cease if each prisoner slept in his own cell.
The most deterrent mode of punishing Chinese is to keep them separate from each other and therefore I hail with pleasure the possibility of the construction
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