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Inclosure 1 in No. 23.
Gaols and Prisoners.
STATISTICAL Return for the Prison of Glendairy for 1874.
Number Committed:
for Debt,
Want of Bail, and
Punishment.
Number of those Committed
who have been
Previously Con-
victed.
Number of Persons Committed
to Penal Imprisonment, including "Penal Servitude" (if that term is used in the
Colony to describe any
Punishment).
Name and Nature of the
Prisons (whethor **Common Gaol," **Penitentiary," &e.). Mere Lock-ups "not to
be inserted.
Glendairy Convict Prison
for Males and Females,
also Common Gaol for
Females-
Malest
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Females
Men
Women
Juveniles
Total
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Total number of Persons Committed
in 1874.
For Debt.
| For safe Custody till
Trial or
Security.
r for want of
Penal Imprisonment.*
or Purposes of
Once.
Twice.
Thrice or more.
For five Year or
more.
nore, but less than
For one Year or
five Years.
For more than three |
For three Montha
Months, and Ices
than one Year.___
or leau.
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 of Deaths during 1874.
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STATISTICAL Return for the Prisons of Barbados for 1874.
Sumber Committed
for Debt,
Want of Bail, and
Punishment.
Number of those Committed
who have been
Previously Con-
victed.
Number of Persons Committed to Penal Imprisonmunt,* including "Penal Servitude" (if that term is used in the
Colony to describe any Punishment).
Naine and Nature of the
Prisons (whether Common Gaul," **Penitentiary," &c.). More Lock-ups" not
to be inserted.
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1 number of Persons Committed
in 1874.
For Debt,
For safe Custody till Trial, or for want of Security,
Penal Imprisonment,”
For Purposes of
Once.
Twice.
Thrice or more.
For five Years or
more.
more, but less than For one Year or
For more than three Months, and less
than one Year.
Give Years.
888 173
Town Ball-
Prison for Males
1,315 343
311
428) 134 93 201
3 2 *
63 126
District A-
Prison for Females
22
38
District B-
Juvenile Prison for Boys.
24
5 49 187
21
6
18
District C-
Prison for Malen
48
48
10
16
District D
Prison for Males,
No
commitments to
this
Prison, The prisoners are sick convicts fre quently transferred tu this establishment from Town Hall Prison, and accounted for in the number of that prison. The statistics included in answers to General Ques- tions..
Total
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Men Votestt Juveniles
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3
30
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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 of Deaths during 1874.
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By" Penal Imprisonment" is meant-imprisonment inflicted as a substantive punishment in pursuance of a sentence of a Court of Justice, as distinguished from imprisonment for safe custody, &c.
The male prisoners are removed from the Town Hall Prison, and the numbers auder the various heads are accounted for in that prison.
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Questions.
1. If the prison is on the separate system, is the separation complete? And if no 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 periods of imprisonment, in respect of what classes of prisoners, and during how many hours, is such penal labour enforced? In stating hours
of treadwheel 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 walks 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 1874?
11. What was the annual amount of the prisoners' earnings during 1874?
12. What are the number of hours allotted for 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 if 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 apprized when prisoners of their respec-
tive 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 Coroners' Inquests been held on every occasion of a death in prison
during the past year? and what were the verdicts ?
20. (1) What was the sanitary state of the prison during the year 1874 ?
(2) 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 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 cubic 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.
3rd or gang C. for prisoners with short sentences.
6. The treadwheel and shot drill are in force in the male prison.
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