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THOSE IN PRISONS INCLUDED 875 SENTENCED TO A PERIOD OF 12 MONTHS OR LESS, 117 OF WHOM WERE SERVING IMPRISONMENT IN DEFAULT OF PAYMENT OF A FINE, 1 232 SERVING SENTENCES OF MORE THAN ONE TO THREE YEARS, 1 121 UNDER SENTENCE OF MORE THAN THREE BUT LESS THAN SIX YEARS AND 633 SENTENCED TO MORE THAN SIX YEARS. INCLUDING 64 SERVING LIFE SENTENCES, AND 22 UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH.
FROM A TOTAL OF 101 MALES AND TWO FEMALES WHOSE DEATH SENTENCES HAD BEEN COMMUTED BY THE GOVERNOR, 58 WERE SERVING LIFE IMPRISONMENT, THREE WERE SERVING 30 YEARS OR MORE, 26 WERE SERVING 20 TO 30 YEARS AND 16 WERE SERVING 10 TO 20 YEARS.
OF THE 1 127 MALE PRISONERS WHO CLAIMED TO BE MARRIED AND LIVING WITH THE IR SPOUSES ON ADMISSION, 119 OR 11 PER CENT HAD INDICATED IN THE CENSUS THAT THE IR SPOUSES HAD DESERTED THEM AFTER THE IR ADMISSION TO AN INSTITUTION.
OVER 29 PER CENT OF THE MALES AND 14 PER CENT OF THE FEMALES IN CUSTODY HAD NOT RECEIVED ANY VISITS IN THE 12 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE CENSUS AND MR GARNER INDICATED THAT THERE WAS A DEFINITE NEED FOR MORE VOLUNTEERS TO VISIT AND BEFRIEND PRISONERS, PARTICULARLY THOSE SERVING LONG TERMS OF IMPRISONMENT.
MANY CONVICTED PERSONS PARTICIPATED IN A WIDE VARIETY OF STUDIES WITHIN INSTITUTIONS. 649 MALES AND 101 FEMALES WERE RECEIVING COMPULSORY EDUCATION WHILST 840 MALES AND 25 FEMALES UNDERTOOK OTHER FORMAL EDUCATION COURSES.
MR GARNER SAID MOST CONVICTED PERSONS WERE. EFFECTIVELY EMPLOYED IN PRISON INDUSTRIES. ON THE DATE OF THE CENSUS, 4 956 PERSONS OR 88 PER CENT OF CONVICTED PERSONS WERE SO EMPLOYED INCLUDING 998 IN GARMENT MAKING, AND 705 IN BUILDING WORK, CARPENTRY, FIBREGLASS FABRICATIONS, PRINTING AND BOOK BINDING, RATTANWARE, SILKSCREENING, SHOE MAKING AND LAUNDERING PROVIDED OTHER FORMS OF WORK FOR INMATES.
THE AVERAGE LENGTH OF TIME A MALE REMAND HELD IN CUSTODY WAS 192 DAYS FOR A TRIAL REMAND, 79 DAYS FOR A DISTRICT COURT REMAND, 26 DAYS FOR A MAGISTRATE COURT REMAND, 14 DAYS FOR A DRUG ADDICTION TREATMENT CENTRE REMAND, 15 DAYS FOR A TRAINING CENTRE REMAND, AND 16 DAYS FOR A DETENTION CENTRE REMAND. NEARLY HALF THE 1 193 REMANDS HAD BEEN IN CUSTODY FOR MORE THAN 30 DAYS WITH 22 HAVING BEEN REMANDED FOR 300 DAYS OR MORE.
IT WAS ALSO WORTHY OF NOTE THAT ON THE DATE OF THE SURVEY 91 MALE AND FOUR FEMALE REMANDS WHO HAD BEEN GRANTED BAIL BY THE COURTS STILL REMAINED IN CUSTODY, MR GARNER SAID.
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