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(Table C.)—DISTRIBUTION of Prison Labour and Summary of Earnings for 1873.
+
Piccadilly Quarry
Laventille Governor's Cottage Botanical Gardens Prince's Buildings Queen's Park Leper Asylum
Colonial Hospital House of Refuge.. Government House
Corcorite Swamp Picton's Furt
Description of Work.
Keeping ground in order, and cutting wood and grass ..
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But what I would like to call your attention to, is the case of the little boys and the case of the Coolies.
It is painful to see little boys of ten and twelve years of age sent to quarries and associated with confirmed criminals. It surely must tend to demoralize them still
worse.
In the case of the Coolies I made some movement in the time of Governor Gordon, and I was told that an instructor and interpreter would be appointed when the man could be found qualified for those duties. Subsequently I pressed the matter upon Mr. Sealy, and he employed some one who proved personally a failure. Since then I do not know of any further steps having been taken.
I think I am correct in saying that a vast majority of the prisoners consist of Coolies, and very many of them, I suppose, are sent to gaol for breaking laws which we have not been at the trouble to instruct them in.
Thanking you for your thoughtfulness in permitting me to make these few
remarks.
Where Employed.
No, af Days.
No. of Men.
Average Rate per Man
Amount,
por Day.
4. d.
L
3. d.
Quarrying stone for Government works, and breaking
metal for streets, &c...
310
13,154
1 Q
G57 14 0
Ditto, ditta --
218
3.341
0
167 I 0
310
4.469
卞
0
223 8 0
Ditto
trimming trees, &c.
310
3,056
0
158 16 0
Sweeping and scouring building
+
9
50
2 10 0
Cutting bamboos, making inclosure, &c.
43
447
0
22 7 0
Cutlassing and clearing grounds, opening drains, white-
washing, &c...
24
192
0
9 12 0
Ditto, ditto
1,163
0
58 3 0
Ditto, dilto
161
0
8 1
Brushing and scouring building
210
Making and clearing drains
16
1 0
0 16
Clearing fort of vines, &c., and whitewashing
14
อ
0 14
Stone breakers
Breaking metal for Government works and Borough
Council
310
2,357
1 0
117 17 0
Carpenters
Making coffins for gaol and other Government institu
tions, and doing general work
810
515
2 0
51 10 0
Tailors..
Making clothing for ditto, ditto
310
1,046
2 6
130 15 0
Bakers..
Making bread for gaol, Colonial hospital, house of
refuge, &c.
365
Cooks..
Cooking for gael and geol infirmary
365
1,161 371
116 2 0
27 16 6
Washers and seamstresses..
Washing gaal clothing, Colonial hospital,, house of
Sir,
refuge, and sewing as required...
310
6,008
0
300 8 0
Wardsmen
Keeping clean inside prison building
365
1,219
10
60 19 0
Office and yards
Keeping yard, &c., in order
310
929
10
46 0 0
Jobbers
Fitters..
Shoemakers
Doing general work
310
736
37 16
0
Making and ending iron-work, &c.
310
429
32 3 6
Making and mending shoes for prisoners, &c.
9
9
0
0 9 0
Hospital orderlivs
Keeping infirmary clean, and assisting in care of sick ..
365
476
1 0
23 16 0
Carrera's laland
Irois Deput Chaguanas ditto..
Quarrying stone for Government works, and breaking
metal for new roads
310
Planting, trenching, &c...
310
5,088 1 0 15,906 0 6
254 8 0
397 13 0
Felling trees, bauling timber, keeping roads in order,
and laying rails for tramway
310 21,215
0
1,060 15 0
3.964 + 0
To the Inspector of Prisons.
I
am,
&c.
(Signed) L. A. TAITT, Chaplain Royal Gaol
(Table D.)-RETURN showing the Number of Juvenile Offenders committed to Royal Gaol in 1872 and 1873.
1872 1878
Sex.
Number of Times committed.
Year.
Male,
Female.
2nd.
3rd.
4th.
5th.
30
14
6 7
1
3
13
3
(Table E, supplementary to Table D.)-RETURN of Juvenile Offenders committed to Royal Gaol from the 1st of January to the 10th of April, 1874.
The Presbytery, February 12, 1871.
As you request me by your letter of the 10th instant to make the remarks and offer the suggestions on the morale of the prisoners, which I may feel inclined to offer.
I have the honour to tell you that the only remark I can make is that, if the prisoners are very efficiently punished, they are very ineffectually improved.
My experience goes as far as to declare that both males and females come out of prison worse than they go into it, and that they lose almost completely that shame which at times might do for conscience.
They are taught to read, write, &c. I would not like to undervalue such means of improving prisoners, yet I am bound to say that, to my knowledge, they have been utterly inefficient.
What I would suggest for the future is to allow confidential persons of both sexes, chosen by the Ministers of the different Communions, into the precincts of the Royal Gaol (as I know for my own part that I could not make time to go there myself every day), these persons would give religious instructions daily at the very same school hour, and I rest assured that a great deal of good would be derived from such an organization, at least by the Creoles.
The Government may try other means. I look upon them as a failure.
I have, &c. (Signee) FR. ANDRE VIOLETTE, O.P.,
To the Inspector of Prisons.
Chaplain Royal Gaol.
Sex.
Number of Times convicted.
Male.
11
Female.
+
2nd.
3rd.
4th.
5th.
uth.
7th.
2
5
1
SUMMARY of Productive Labour performed in the Royal Gaol for the Year ending
PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
Reference -
TC.O.885
31st December, 1873.
Department. Prisoners.
Metal.
Siftings. Cuffins,
Private Making Work. Garments.
Miscel
laneous.
£ s. d. 397 13 0
£
111
d.
£ s. d.
£
d. £
d. £ 8. d.
£
息。
d.
+ 0
18 6
71
78 4 91
3 11 10
3 10 11
Sir,
All Saints' Parsonage, Port of Spain, February 13, 1874.
I IIAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of a letter from you, dated 10th February 1874, in reference to your Annual Report upon the Royal Gaol, and cour- teously offering me, as Chaplain, the opportunity of making any remarks I may wish upon the moral condition of the prisoners.
I do not think we can reasonably look for any very marked improvement of moral tone in any gaol, but particularly in one of a sea-port town in an island in which the influx of immigration is so great. As a rule, I believe, good subjects are home loving, and we must expect the other West Indian Islands and India to send us only those they can well spare.
However, I have noticed a marked improvement in our gaol in the outward behaviour of the prisoners within the last year, particularly in the readiness and cheer- fulness with which they set about their tasks.
Irois Estate
Borough Council.. Colonial Hospital. House of Refuge... Leper Asylum Luontic Asylum.. Royal Engineering
Department Prison OEcers
Sales
Total
5
1 17 6
3 2 6
17 12 10
397 13 0
116 5 9
17 12 10
36 17
10
9 9 8
9
9 N
90 13 91 66
66 7 24
7 2
3 PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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