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in a
gaol with better food, greater
Comfort, home.
4.
and less work than in his own
Under these circumstances,
it is not surprising that the percentage of old offenders is very high, and the
dissatisfaction of the respectable Chinese proportionately great.
A must always be borne in
mind that detection is
to the
RAM
as it is by co-
operation need to the apathetic
Oriental that it is to the active European,
and
to
come other
that, unless joined - penalty, it cannot but prove ineffective when applied to the
former. (In support of this statement
it may be observed. Authorities find Chinese prisoner preferring to remain in Gaol rather than to deposit a small sum as security for good behaviour, even when perfectly able to do so.)
6. The additional penalties
which
1
which have been successfully tried in
Hongkong are
solitary confinement.
retaining on the breach.
7.
The first of these has, no doubt,
a most salutary effect, but the expense of providing separate cells for the large criminal class is a considerable obstacle to its adoption.
8.
The second would appear to be
decidedly preferable from
an economic
favour
point of view, while, from the favour with which it is regarded by the Chinese themselves,
among
whom it
is the ordinary form of punishment it would seem that as great a
degree of success might be expected from its adoption in certain cases in Hongkong
as now attends its operation
in India.
We have …
of Alfred G. Wire
Police Magistrate
son G. Mitchell - Innes
Acting
Police Magistrate