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STATISTICAL RETURN FOR THE PRISONS OF HONGKONG FOR 1901.

D

Name and Nature

of the Prisons, (Whether

· Common Gaol.“

Penitentiary." &c.) Mere Lock-ups "

not to

he inserted.

• Victoria Gnol.”— Common Gaol, House of

Total Number of Prisoners Committed in 1901.

For Debt.

...

For Safe Custody till Trial or for Want of Security.

For Purposes of l'ena)- Imprisonment.

Once,

Twice.

Thrice or mury.

For Five Years or move,

For one Year or more, but

less than Five Years.

For more than 3 Month».

and less than One Year,

For 3 Months or less,

Punishment).

Number l'omnitted For Debt,

Number of those Committel

Want of Bail,

who have been

and Punishment,

Number of Persons Committed to Peunt Imprisonment,*

including

* Penal Servitude,”

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 1901.

The Number of Beatles during 1901.

Correction, also re- reives Prisoners sen- tenced to Penal Ser- vitude, &c.,

3,077

20

6794,360

107

ה*

15

76

128 4.120

199

:

Total............. 5,077

20

679 1,069 487 107

$3

15

70

128 4.120

499

Men,

4.795

23

628 | 4.139

102

42

76

120 3.901

482.7

Women,

Juveniles,

178

37

104

2

2

90

3

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16

三

三

7 131

13.2

8.0 376

16

1

8N

3.1

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, &e.

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 separu- 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 words?

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

V. How are the prisoners classified?

Answers.

The Prison is nearly all on the separate system. European and Asiatic prisoners both new and old offenders are located in separate cells except when the total number of prisoners exceed 514.

All cell doors are provided with inspection holes through which the prisoners can be seen by the officers patrolling the wards, While at labour or exercise the prisoners are at all times under the immediate supervi- sion of Principal Warders, Warders, nud Assistant Warders.

There are 500 cells on the separate system, and 14 associated cells.

In separate..... In association

........664 cubic feet. ....(approximate) 220

**

First offenders are treated as far as accommodation will permit as the star class men in the IIome Prisons; they are kept quite disfinct from the habitun! criminals. In classification their sentence and nationality are taken into consideration; they are classified as follows, viz. :

Europeans, Indians, and Chinese.

Debitors.

Misdemeanants.

On remand and awaiting trial.

First offenders,

Habitual criminals,

Juvenile offendors.

All the prisoners of the above classes are separated

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