CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9]

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New rule Old rule Remarks 202 252 286 253 254 Conf336 255 287 256 288 of labour under rule 257. The yard space being limited it is desirable that the Governor should have power to approve such new forms of labour as it may be found possible to utilise from time to time. 339 Rearranged and with the alteration that under the new rule it is left to the discretion of the Superintendent what form of industrial labour the convict shall be kept at after the period of separate confinement is completed. In the interest of the gaol industries it is desirable that the Superintendent should have that discretion. New. A Distinction is made between first offenders and old offenders, which is in accordance with the actual practice hitherto observed in the gaol. Recast. The period of No.1 Hard labour to be exacted from first offenders with sentences of less than two years is reduced to 42 days from that more of the time of a well conducted prisoner may be spent at Industrial labour. Imantha The corresponding period of hard unproductive labour in local prisons at home is 28 days only. Public opinion in England has declared against unproductive hard labour and did the prison accommodation permit, I would recommend its abolition here. uwproductive The elimination of prisoners with sentences of 14 days and under from hard labour has been abolished. Such exemption not in accordance with the practice at home, and it is difficult to understand why it was introduced here

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