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Questions.
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?
2. If not on the separate system, what provision is there for the supervision of the prisoners while in association ?
3. How many cells are there; and how many associated wards?
4. Taking the average number of prisoners in gaol, how many cubic feet of space are there for each prisoner during the hours of sleep?
5. How are the prisoners classified?
6. Is penal labour, that is, labour by treadmill, crank, or shot-drill, in force?
7. If so, during what period of imprisonment, in respect of what classes of prisoners, and during how many hours, is such penal labour enforced? In stating hours of tread- mill labour, give, first, the total time on and off at the wheel, &c. ; secondly, the length of spells and intervals of rest.
8. What kind of labour, other than penal labour, is in use?
9. If the prisoners are employed beyond the walls of the Gaol state-
(a) On what kind of work they are so employed.
(b) How are they supervised?
(c) How many escapes of prisoners, while being employed beyond the Gaol,
have taken place during each of the last three years?
(d) How the profits of their labour are accounted for?
10. What was the total annual cost of the prison during the year 1872? 11. What was the annual amount of the prisoner's earnings during 1872?
12. What are the number of hours allotted to sleep? And, if sleep is in association, are the dormitories lighted; and how often are they patrolled during the night?
13. What were the number and nature of the punishments inflicted for offences committed by prisoners undergoing imprisonment?
14. Is there, or are there, any chaplain or chaplains of any, and what, religious persuasions?
15. Are religious services regularly or otherwise performed for the benefit of the prisoners of any, and if any, what religious persuasion?
16. Are Roman Catholic priests and dissenting ministers allowed free access to prisoners of their own persuasion? and are they apprised when prisoners of their respective persuasions enter the prison?
17. What provision is made for the education of prisoners?
18. On what conditions are remissions of imprisonment granted ?
19. Have Coroner's Inquests been held on every occasion of a death in prison during the past year? and what were the verdicts?
20.
(a) What was the sanitary state of the prison during the year 1872 ?
(b) What were the prevailing diseases?
21. What are, shortly, the rules as to diet?
Answers applying to Glendairy.
1. In the Male Prison, there are all separate cells, and the prisoners all sleep apart. In the day they are worked, some of them on the treadwheel, some at shot-drill, and the remainder forming the Good Conduct Gang A., are associated at gang work. In the Female Prison, a part of the prisoners sleep separately, the others are associated. There is no separate labour during the day.
2. In the Male Prison, by six warders. In the Female Prison, by four matrons and two superintendents.
3. In the Male Prison there are seventy-two separate cells. In the Female Prison
there are thirty-six separate cells, and six association rooms.
4. MALES.--Each cell has 727 cubit feet, and communicates by a door to a spare room to windward, containing 280 cubic feet. This spare room has a window 4 feet 7 inches high, by 3 feet wide.
FEMALES.-The single cells contain 857 cubic feet, and have two windows 2 feet 2 inches, by 1 foot 6 inches-one over the entrance door, and one at the end opposite the entrance door.
5. 1st, or Good Conduct Gang A.
2nd, or Probationary Gang B.
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3rd, or Gang C, for prisoners with short sentences.
6. The treadmill and shot-drill are in force in the Male Prison.
7. In the Male Prison, all prisoners on admission are worked on the treadmill for the following periods: 1st offenders, for 3 months; 2nd offenders, for 6 months; and 3rd offenders, for 9 months. They are worked for 8 hours, and are a quarter-of-an-hour on the wheel and a quarter-of-an-hour off They have, also, an interval of an hour for breakfast. After their period on the treadwheel has expired, they are put to shot-drill until removed to Good Conduct Gang A.
8. In the Male Prison, baking bread, pumping water, quarrying stone, and sweeping and cleaning the buildings and yard. In the Female Prison, washing clothes, making and mending clothes, cooking for the male and female prisoners at Glendairy, Town Hall, and District A. Prisons. Sweeping and cleaning the buildings and yard, and breaking stone.
9. (a) The male prisoners composing Gang A are employed on the prison land just
outside the boundary wall in quarrying stone.
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(b) By three superintendents.
(c) One escape in the year 1870.
(d) There are no profits of labour.
11. There were no earnings.
12. The prison cells are closed at 6 o'clock in the evening, and opened at half-past
6 o'clock in the morning. There is a large lamp kept burning all night, both in the male and female prisons, opposite the cells. The cells are patrolled not less than 3 times during the night. An officer is always on duty.
13. 9 males to 7 days, and 12 males to 14 days' solitary confinement; 1 male to
7 stripes; 5 to 12 stripes; 3 to 14 stripes: 4 to 18 stripes; and 4 to 24 stripes; 2 males
to 1 month; 1 to 10 days; and 6 to 14 days on treadmill.
2 females to 7 days; and 1 female to 14 days' solitary confinement.
466 minor punishments: these are stopping tea, or bread, or fish.
14. There is a Chaplain, a clergyman of the Established Church.
15. Religious services are regularly performed by the Chaplain. There is a morning service on Sunday at 8 A.M., and there is a regular afternoon service in the chapel of the prison at 5 P.M., for males and females. The prison is well supplied with bibles, prayer books, and other suitable books for the use of the prisoners.
16. There have not been any Roman Catholic or Dissenting prisoners, but ministers of these persuasions are allowed free access to prisoners, and would be apprized if any of their persuasions were in prison, if a prisoner desired it, but any books which such ministers may wish to supply to convicts must first be submitted to the Inspector of Prisons.
17. There is a schoolmaster, who assists the Chaplain in catechizing and instructing the prisoners, and he attends the prison every evening.
18. On account of full and regular labour and general good conduct in prison, and when prisoners have undergone two-thirds of their sentences, tickets of leave are granted to first offenders.
19. Coroners' inquests have been held regularly. There were 3 deaths during the
year. The following were the verdicts:-
(a.) Heminorhage of the lungs.
(b.) Dysenteric diarrhoea.
(c) Constitutional debility.
20. (a.) Very good. See the Report of Dr. Clarke, Medical Superintendent,
annexed.
(b.) None.
21. Every prisoner is allowed the following daily rations, divided equally into
2 meals, viz.:—
Yana, plantains, eddoes, or sweet potatoes Bread
Indian or Guinea corn, couco vr boiled rice Salt fish
Lbs. ozs.
1 0
1 1
4 0
0 2
Two ozs. of bread and half a pint of molasses and water are given before going to work in the morning. The same diet is not given 2 days in succession, nor more than 2 days in one week.
(Signed)
FREDK. WATTS, Inspector of Prisons.
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