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STATISTICAL RETURN FOR THE PRISONS OF HONGKONG FOR 1895.

Name and Nature

of the Prisons, (Whether "Common Gaol," "Penitentiary," &c.)

Merc "Lock-ups

not to

be inserted.

19

"Victoria Gaol," Common Gaol, House of】

Correction, also JC- ceives Prisoners set. tenced to Penal Ser- vitude, &c.,

Men,

Women,

Juveniles,

5,014

15

66

2.53 1.69% 367

134 172 10

72

312 4,301

172

27.74

231

2

Total Number of Prisoners Committed in 1895.

For Debt.

For Safe Custody till Trial or for Want of Security,

For Purposes of l'enal Imprisonment.

Once.

Twice.

Thrice or more.

For Five Years or more.

For one Year or more, but

less than Five Years.

For more than 3 Months, and less than One Year.

For 3 Mentlis or less.

Punishment).

Number Committed for Debt, Want of Bail.

and Punishment.

Number of those Committed

Number of Persons

Committed to Penal Imprisonment,*

including

* Penal Servitude,"

who have been previously Convicted, (if that term is used in the

Colony to describe any

The Daily Average Number in Prison.

The Daily Average Number on the Sick List,

The Number of Admissions to Hospital during the Year 1895.

Į The Number of Deaths during 1895.

Total........

5.014 66 263 4,695

367 134

172

10

=

72

812 4.301

172

27.74 | 231

4,674

GI 216 4,397

352

126

165 10

651

69

272 4,046

101

31 15$

146

fi 140

15

7

7

3

35 120

18

27,74 231

135

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 EACHI PRISON IN THE COLONY.

Questions.

I. If the Prison is on the separate system, is this 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 Gaol, how many cubic feet of space are there for cach prisoner during the hours of sleep?

zinswers.

The Prison is partially on the separate system. Two hundred and forty-six cells are on the sepurate systom in which are located all the European and part of the Asiatic prisoners (old offenders). The remainder are in association day and night.

All association cells have iron gates, through which the prisoners can be seen by the Turnkeys patrolling the wards. While at labour or exercise, prisoners are at all times under the immediate supervision of Prison officers.

There are three hundred and forty-six cells, and two association wards for female prisoners, the latter being in a private house.

Males in separate

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Feinales

association

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Gaol extension on the cellular system No. 1 Ward

2

3

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V. How are the prisoners classified?

.714 cubic feet. ..370 487

11

14

+

售多

548 enbic feet. .580 ..783

"

..

First offenders are treated as far as aerommodation will permit as the star class men in the Home Prisons: they are kept quite distinct from the habitual criminals, In classifiention their sentence and nationality is taken into consideration; they are classified as follows, viz. :— Europeans, Indians, and Chinese.

Debtors.

Misdemeanants,

On remand and awaiting trial.

First offenders.

Habitual criminals.

All the prisoners of the above classes are separated

at night, and in the yards, as much as possible.

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