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Answers applying to the Town Hall, and to A, B, C, and D Prisons.
1. There is no separate system; the confinement is in associated wards in all the prisons.
2. At the Town Hall Prison there are three warders, who supervise the prisoners. At Prison A the prisoners are under the supervision of the Matron and Police. At the Juvenile Asylum B the keeper is the supervisor. At C the keeper supervises, and the prison is patrolled by police during the night. At D a police sentinel is placed over the prisoners, and the keeper also supervises them.
At
3. At the Town Hall Prison there are 6 cells and 8 associated wards. At A there are 2 large associated wards, and 6 separate cells, used for the purpose of prison discipline. At B two dormitories. At C there are 6 associated wards and 6 cells. D there is associated room, 41 feet long, 80 feet wide, and 6 feet 8 inches high, and 3 separate cells.
4. In the Town Hall Prison, 200 cubic feet; at A, 518 feet; at B, 6281 feet; at C, 371 feet; and at D, 3724 feet.
5.
(a.) Felons sentenced to hard labour.
(b.) Misdemeanants sentenced to hard labour.
(c.) Felons not sentenced to hard labour.
(d.) Misdemeanants not sentenced to hard labour,
(e.) Untried prisoners.
(f.) Seamen deserters.
(9.) European soldiers and sailors.
(h.) Debtors.
(i.) Prisoners confined for want of sureties.
The deficiencies of the Town Hall and rural Houses of Correction render it impos- sible to enforce proper classification.
6. Shot drill is enforced at the Town Hall Prison, and District C and D Prisons, but not at the other prisons.
7. All hard labour prisoners are subjected to shot drill during one-third of the period of their sentence, up to 18 months, which is the maximum, notwithstanding the imprisonment should be of longer duration. Those sentenced to a less period than 21 days are kept at shot drill the whole of that period, 21 days being the minimum of that description of penal labour. The hours of shot drill are 6 daily, from 6 A.M. to 9 A.M., and from 1 r.. to 4 P.M.
8. Stone-breaking, and the females at A Prison drawing water from a well 100 feet deep, by means of a crank pump for a quarter of an hour at a time, with intervals of 10 minutes' rest.
9. (a.) The Town Hall prisoners are employed in the Government House grounds and garden, and on the dredge in the harbour. At District A Prison in cleaning the outside yard and ground and buildings. At Juvenile Asylum B the boys are employed in agriculture on the neighbouring estates. At C. repairing the highways in the districts of St. Philip and St. John. At D gathering stone for breaking within the prison. There is not much hard labour performed here, as two-thirds of the prisoners transferred to this station are generally in bad health.
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(b.) By Superintendents.
(c.) There were 9 escapes from the Juvenile Asylum. One escape at C Prison. escapes from the other prisons.
(d.) There are no profits of labour except by the juvenile prisoners at B. Their earnings for the year amounted to 268 dols. 61 cents. The amount was paid into the Island Treasury without any diminution.
11. 268 dols. 61 c., as shown in reply to No. 9 question.
The
12. Prisoners are locked up at 5 o'clock P.M., and turned out at 5 o'clock.. dormitories are not lighted. They are patrolled hourly during the night, either by the warders or police officers on duty.
13. At the Town Hall Prison the following are the number and nature of the punishments inflicted :—
Two prisoners sentenced to 4 days, 7 to 7 days, 1 to 10 days, 10 to 14 days, 2 to 20 days, 1 to 21 days, and 2 to 28 days' solitary confinement each; 3 prisoners sentenced to receive 7 stripes, 7 to 9 stripes. 5 to 12 stripes, 1 to 14 stripes, G to 18 stripes, 1 to 20 stripes, 10 to 24 stripes, and 3 to 39 stripes; 2,600 minor punishments, by stopping molasses and water, and placing in separate cells at night.
At District A Prison.-One prisoner sentenced to 7 days' solitary confinement; 18 minor punishments, by being placed in a separate cell during the night.
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At the Juvenile Asglum B four boys were whipped with rods, and 72 half-messed for minor offences.
At Prison C.-One prisoner sentenced to 3 days, 1 to 6 days, 2 to 7 days, 1 to 8 days, 1 to 10 days, I to 12 days, and 2 to 14 days' solitary confinement each; 1 prisoner sentenced to receive 12 stripes, 3 to 20 stripes, 2 to 25 stripes; 15 minor punishments, by being placed in separate cells, from 5 p.m. to 6 A.M.
At D Prison.-Two prisoners sentenced to 7 days, 1 to 10 days, and 1 to 14 days' solitary confinement; 1 prisoner sentenced to receive 18 stripes, I to 21 stripes, and 2 to 25 stripes; 220 minor punishments, by fish being stopped, and confined in separate cells during the night.
14. One Chaplain of the Established Church for all the prisons. 15. Religious services are regularly performed. Sundays and Wednesdays, a morning service at 7 A.M., by the Chaplain; on other At the Town Hall Prison, on mornings of the week prayers are said regularly by the Catechist of the prison. At District A Prison, on Friday in each week, a morning service at 8 a.. by the Chaplain. At District B, Juvenile Asylum, on Wednesday afternoon in each week, a service at 5 P.M. by the Chaplain. At District C Prison, on alternate Saturdays, a service at
8 A.M. by the Chaplain. At District D Prison, on alternate Saturdays, a service at 8 A.M. by the Chaplain. All the prisons are well supplied with bibles and prayer books. 16. Any prisoner of a religious persuasion differing from that of the Established Church may, on request to the Provost-Marshal, be visited by a minister of his persuasion, on days, and such seasonable hours, as may not interfere with the good order of the prison, the address of such minister to be given to the gaoler, and to be communicated by him to the Chaplain. Any books which such ministers may wish to supply to the prisoners of their persuasion must first be submitted to the Inspector of Prisons.
17. The Keeper is Schoolmaster to the Juvenile Asylum at B. Lo instruct the boys. There is no provision whatever made for the education of the prisoners at the Town Hall, Districts A, C. and D. prisons.
18. For good conduct one third of a sentence is remitted, but this only applies to first convictions.
19. Coroners' inquest have been held on every occasion of a death in prison during the past year. The following are the verdicts:-
Town Hall Prison.-5 deaths. 1 verdict, general debility; 1 verdict, consumption; 3 verdicts, dysentery.
District A, Prison.-1 death. Verdict, natural causes.
District C, Prison.-2 deaths. 1 verdict, diarrhoea: 1 verdict, dropsy.
District D, Prison.-3 deaths. Verdict, natural causes.
20. (a.) The Medical Superintendents make very satisfactory reports of the sanitary state of the prisons during the year. The report of Dr. Clarke is annexed.
(6.) Diarrhoea and dysentery, and amongst the boys at B, inflammation of the eyes. 21. Every adult prisoner employed at hard labour is allowed the following daily rations, divided equally into two meals, breakfast at 10 o'clock A.M., dinner about 4 o'clock P.M.
Yams, plantains, eddoes or sweet potatoe< Or, bread
Or, Indian or Guinen corn, couco or boiled rice
With salt fish
Lbs. ozs.
4 0
I +
3 0
0 2
Or, brend
Every adult prisoner not employed at hard labour for the first ten days, gruel At the expiration of 10 days, yams, plantains, eddoes or sweet potatoes
3 pints.
3
Salt fish
2 0 0 1
Every juvenile prisoner under the age of 12 years is allowed for cach meal two third-
of the full rations given each adult.
(Signed)
FREDK. WATTS, Inspector of Prisons
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Officers of Prisons.
Mr. Spencer, the Governor of Glendairy, continues in the even tenor of his in the duties of his office, at the same time kind and humane to prisoners; he carries out
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