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years would be four years. At this rate the follow- ing table will exhibit the total accommodation required and the existing means of supplying it :

GREAT BRITAIN.

Accommodation required Existing accommodation, Males

Females..

10,000

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Gibraltar, annual vacancies

8,000

300

200

8,500

Deficiency

IRELAND.

1,500

Accommodation required

Existing accommodation, exclusive of tem-

porary depôts

--

Bermuda (annual vacancies)

Deficiency

6,200

4,800

400

5,200

1,000

All these statements are necessarily, to a consi- derable degree, hypothetical, but they are the best which can be offered under existing circumstances.

The total cost of new prison accommodation, in- cluding every adjunct, has been estimated by the Chairman of the Directors of Convict Prisons, at about 70%. But, on the other hand, must be deducted the saving upon the transport of about 1500 prisoners annually from Great Britain, and 800 from Ireland. On these assumptions the account will stand as follows:

Cost of 1500 new cells required in Great £

Britain at 701.

105,000 Deduct saving (per annum) at 242. on

transport of 1500 convicts

£

36,000

Net cost for Great Britain

69,000

Cost of 1000 new cells required in Ireland Deduct saving (per annum) at 247. on

70,000

transport of 500 convicts

12,000

Net cost for Ireland

58,000

Total cost for Great Britain and Ireland

127,000

But the whole of this outlay would not have to be made immediately. The entire extent of room would not be wanted until prisoners had been accu- mulating for four years. And the burden might

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