| Name and Nature of Prison | Total Committed | For Debt | For Safe Custody | For Penal Imprisonment | Once | Twice | Thrice or More | 5+ Years | 1–5 Years | 3 Months – 1 Year | 3 Months or Less | For Debt, Want of Bail | Previously Convicted |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Victoria Gaol, Common Gaol, House of Correction, also Receives Prisoners Sentenced to Penal Servitude | 5014 | 31 | 832 | 4182 | 386 | 197 | 13 | 46 | 155 | 323 | 3658 | 787 | — |
| Total | 5014 | 31 | 832 | 4182 | 386 | 197 | 13 | 46 | 155 | 323 | 3058 | 4729 | 30 |
| Men | 783 | 3946 | 373 | 183 | 10 | 46 | 151 | 296 | 3450 | 719 | — | — | — |
| Women | 197 | 1 | 38 | 159 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 14 | 27 | 362 | 14 | 13 |
| Juveniles | 88 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 68 | 11 | — | — | — | — | — |
Note: The original table includes additional columns (Daily Average in Prison, Hospital Admissions, Daily Average Sick, Deaths) which are not fully legible in the OCR output.
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I. If the Prison is on a separate system, separation complete? And, if not, what is the separation enforced by day and night respectively?
The Victoria Gaol is nearly on the separate system. The Branch Prison at Lai Chi Kok is not on the separate system; prisoners work and sleep in association.
II. If not on the separate system, what provision is there for the supervision of the prisoners while in Association?
Victoria Gaol: All cell doors are provided with inspection holes through which the prisoners can be seen by the officers patrolling the wards. While at labour or exercise the prisoners are at all times under the immediate supervision of Principal Warders, Warders, and Assistant Warders. At Lai Chi Kok Branch Prison, officers patrol behind grilles at night.
III. How many cells are there; and how many associated wards?
Victoria Gaol: 655 cells on the separate system, 12 associated cells, and 1 condemned cell.
Lai Chi Kok: 4 Halls—each Hall can accommodate 50 prisoners.
IV. Taking the average number of prisoners in Gaol, how many cubic feet of space are there for each prisoner during the hours of sleep?
Victoria Gaol: In separate cells, 664 cubic feet. In association (approximate), 200 cubic feet.
Lai Chi Kok: There are 602 cubic feet to each prisoner and each one has 54 sq. feet of window capable of being opened.
V. How are the prisoners classified?
In classification their sentence and nationality are taken into consideration; they are classified as follows:
Europeans, Indians, and Chinese.
Debtors.
Misdemeanants.
On remand and awaiting trial.
First offenders.
Habitual criminals.
Juvenile offenders.
All the prisoners of the above classes are separated at night, and in the yards, as much as possible.
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GAOLS AND PRISONERS.
STATISTICAL RETURN FOR THE PRISONS OF HONGKONG FOR 1922.
Name and Nature
of the Prisons, (Whether Common Gaol,"
· Penitentiary." &c.) Mere “ Lock-uj#"
not to
be inserted,
Total Number of Persons Committed in 1922,
For Debt.
For Safe Custody tili Trial or for Want of Security.
For Purposes of Penal Imprisonment,*
Once.
Twice.
| Thrice or more.
For Five Years or more.
For One Year or more, but
less than Five Years.
For more than Three Months, and less than One Year,
For Three Months or less.
Number Committed for Deht,
Want of Rail.
Number of those
Committed
who have been
Number of Persons Committed to
including
H
Penal Servitude."
and Punishment. previously Convicted, (if that term is used in the
Colony to describe any
Punishment).
The Daily Average Number in Prison,
The Number of Admissions to Hospital during the Year 1922.
The Daily Average Number on the Sick List,
The Number of Deaths during 1922.
Correction, also TC-
ceives Prisoners Ben- tenced to Penal Ser- vitude. $6, mi.........
5,014
31
832 4.182
386
197
13 | 46
155
323 3.658
787
Total...........
5.014
31
832 4.182
386
197
13
46 | 155
323 3,058
4.729
30
Men,
783 3.946
373
183
10
46
151
296 | 3,450
719
Woment.
Inveniles,
By
:
197
1
38 | 159 !
3 Nil Nil.
18
14/
27
362
14
13
88
Nil.
1:
3
Nil. Nil
68
11
"Penal Imprisonment" is meant imprisonment inflicted as a substantive punishment in pursuance of a sentence of a Court of
Justice, as distinguished from imprisonment for safe custody, &c.
THESE QUESTIONS ARE TO BE FILLED UP IN RESPECT OF EACH PRISON IN THE COLONY.
Questions,
Answers.
is the
L-If the Prison is on a separate system, separation complete ? And, if not, what is the separu- tión enforced by day and night respectively?
II-If not on the separate system, what provision is there for the supervision of the prisoners while in Association ?
III-How many cells are there; and how many associated wards?
IV. Taking the overage number of prisoners in Gaol, how many cubic feet of space are there for each prisoner during the hours of sleep ?
V.-How are the prisoners classified 2
The Victoria Gaol is nearly on the separate system. The Branch Prison at Lai Chi Kok is not on the separate systein, Prisoners work and sleep in asso-
ciation.
Vietoria Gaol :—All well doors are provided with inspection holes through which the prisoners can he While at seen by the officers patrolling the wards. labour or exercise the prisoners are at all times under the immediate supervision of Principal Wardders, Wanders, and Assistant Warders. At Lai Chi Kok Branch Prison, officers patrol behind grilles at night,
Victoria Gnol:— 655 cells on the separate system, 12 associated cells, and 1 condemned cell.
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Lai Chi Kok:- 4 Halls-enel Hall can recom- modate 50 prisoners.
Victoria Gnol:-
:-
In separate...
...664 cubic feet.
In association .............(approximate) 200
11
Lai Chi Kok:-There are 602 cubic feet to euch prisoner and each one has 54 sq. feet of window cap- able of being opened.
In classification their sentence and nationality are taken juto consideration; they are classified as follows, viz. :—
Europeans, Indians, and Chinese.
Debtors.
Misdemeanants.
On remand and awaiting trial.
First offenders.
Habitual criminals.
Juvenile offenders.
All the prisoners of the above classes are separatel
at night, and in the yards, as much as possible.
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