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STATISTICAL RETURN FOR THE PRISONS OF HONGKONG FOR 1876.

Name and Nature

of the PilwonEN, (Whether "Cainmen Grol,” "Penitentiary," &c.)

Mere “Lock-upa** not to bo Inserted.

"Victorin Gnol,"

Common Gaol, House of Correc- tion, also receives Prisonerssentenced to l'enal Servitudo, &c.

Number committed for Debt, Want of Bail,

And Punishment.

Total Number of Prisoners committed in 1870.

For Debt.

For safe Custody till Trial, or for Want of Security,

For Purposes of Penal Imprisonment.

Xumber of those Committed

win liave been

previously Convicted.

Quce.

Twice.

Thrice or motc.

Number of Persons

Committed to Penal Imprisonment,"

Including

"Penal Servitude,”

(if that term is used in the

Colony to describe any

Punishment.)

For Five Years or more.

For Que Year or more, but

less than Five Years.

For more than 3 Months,

and less than One Year.

| 4,003

20

For 3 Months or less.

The Daily Average Number in Prison.

The Daily Average Number on the Sick List.

The Number of Admissious to Hospital during the Year 1870.

The Number of Deaths during 1870.

700 3,330

170 81

72 20

117

254 2,008

432.00 | 14.11

215

I

Hera fill up the columna

In respect of Women, the whole Colony.

Total,.... 4,005 26 700 3,339

Men....... 3,724 24

614 3,080

220

170

156

81 | 72 20

117

254

75 08

20

107

244

2,008

2,715 400.201

433.60 14.11

215

1

સ

60 152

2

10

132 19.431

14.11 215

Juveniles, 118

-

17

101

21

8

4

101

3.00

**

• 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.

THESE QUESTIONS ARE TO BE FILLED UP IN RESPECT OF EACII PRISON IN THE COLONY.

Questions.

I. If the prison is on the separate system, is the separation complete? And if not, what is the separa- tion enforced by day and night respectively?

II. If not on the separate system, what provision is there for the supervision of the prisoners while in association ?

III. How many cells are there; and how many

associated wards?

IV. Taking the average number of prisoners in Goal, how many cubic feet of space are there for each prisoner during the hours of sleep?

V. How are the prisoners classified?

VI. Is penal labour-that is, labour by treadmill, crank, or shot-drill-in force?

Answers.

The Prison is not on the separate systent, but the majority of the European prisoners, and a few of the Chinese are in separate cells at night.

The Chinese and Indian prisoners are in association both day and night.

All the cells of the Prison have iron gates, through which the prisoners can be seen at night. While at labour or at exercise, the prisoners are constantly under the supervision of the Prison Officers,

There are 144 ordinary sleeping cells, 15 punish- ment cells; and 4 wards in the Prison, only one of the latter is used by night. 37 cells are on the sepa- rate system, and 107 on the associated plan.

The daily average number of prisoners confined during the year 1870 was 432.600, (as against 374.00 in the previous year.) The cubic space for each pri- soner during the hours of sleep was 884.213 cubic feet (ns against 082.291 cubic feet in the previous year), if space in passages and corridors be included in the measurement.

According to the nature of their sentences, their nationality, and occasionally according to their habits and temperament, as follows, viz. :-

Europeans, Indians, and Chinesc. Debtors,

Misdemeanants,

Penal servitude,

Prisoners on remand and for trial.

All the prisoners of the above classes are separated at night, on the works, and in the yards, as much as possible.

There is no tread-mill labour, but shot-drill, crank- labour, stone-breaking, stone-carrying, and oakum- picking are in force. None of the prisoners are now employed outside the Gaol.