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BAHAMAS.
No. 35.
PUBLIC
RECORD OFFICE
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C.O.885
3 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
ALLY WITHOUT PERMISSION OF THE COPYRIGHT PHOTOGRAPH-NOT TO BE REPRODUCED PHOTOGRAPHIC-
Governor Robinson to the Earl of Carnarvon.—(Received August 7.)
(No. 154. Bahamas.) My Lord,
Government House, Nassau, June 30, 1875.
IN compliance with the instructions contained in the Earl of Kimberley's Circular, despatch of the 30th January, 1872, I have the honour to forward to your Lordship Returus relating to Crime and Prison Discipline, together with the Reports therein called
for.
In my Report on the Blue Book for 1874, I referred at length to these Returns.
I have, &c.
(Signed) WILLIAM ROBINSON
J
Inclosure 1 in No. 35.
Guols and Prisoners.
STATISTICAL RETURN for the Prisons of the Bahamas for 1874.
Name and Nature of the Prisons. (Whether **Common Gaol,'*
"Penitentiary," &c.) Mere Lock-ups" not to be inserted.
Number Committed fur Debt,
Want of Bail, and
Punishment.
Total Number of Persons Committed
in 1874.
For Debt.
For safe Custody till
Trial, or for Waut of
-Áltangaz
For
Number of those
Committed
who have been
previously Con.
victed.
Once.
Twice.
Number of Persons Committed
to Penal Imprisonment, including Penal Servitude" (if that term is used in the
Colony to describe
Thrice or more.
For Five Years or
more.
Punishment).
For One Year or
any
For more than Three
more, but less than
Months and less than
Five Years.
204-BUK)
For Three Months
or less.
The Daily Average Number in Prison.
The Number of Admissions to Hospital
during the Year 1874.
The Daily Average on the Sick List.
The Number
Deaths during 1874.
Nassau Prison, situate in
344
southern suburbs of the
City of Nassau, and is a
Common G■ol.
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Men Women
Juveniles
2 32 310 40 19 100 2
12
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23
1 66
1
23
268 67.33 23
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1
12
22
5
73 6.93 2
14632-81 21 1.61 1
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1
49 7-69
344
2 32 310 40 19 100
207
25
85 1 52
461
181
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By "Penal Imprisonnient" is meant imprisonment inflicted as a substantive punishment in pursuance of a sentence of a Court of Justice, as distinguished from imprisonment för safe custody, &c.
[These Questions are to be filled up in respect of each Prison in the Colony.]
Q. 1. If the prison is on the separate system, is the separation complete? And if not, what is the separation enforced by day and night respectively?—A. The Nassau Prison is conducted on the separate system, the prisoners being associated only when at work.
Q. 2. If not on the separate system, what provision is there for the supervision of the prisoners while in association ?-f. The prisoners are sent out to work during the
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