in the Annual Report of the Superintendent of the Gaol, I have now the honour to transmit a copy of the Report which I have received, together with a letter from one of the Members of the Committee, the Honourable A.V. Massey Ewen expressing his dissent from some of the recommendations of his colleagues.
2. The main point brought to notice in these papers is the overcrowded state of the Prison, which has now more than 700 prisoners. On 1st June, 1886, there were 538 prisoners confined in its walls. There have been in previous years a still larger number of prisoners under detention. I find that in 1881 there were, at one time, as many as 768. In considering the amount of cubic space that is available for each prisoner, it must be remembered that there are openings from all the cells into spacious corridors, besides openings on the opposite side of the cells into the yards, so that there is a free current of air, which is not ...
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