Name and Nature of Prison: Victoria Gaol – Common Gaol, House of Correction
| Category | Total Committed | For Debt | For Safe Custody till Trial or Want of Security | For Penal Imprisonment | Previously Convicted: Twice | Previously Convicted: Thrice or More | Sentence: 5+ Years | Sentence: 1–5 Years | Sentence: 3 Months – 1 Year | Sentence: ≤3 Months | Daily Average in Prison | Hospital Admissions | Daily Average on Sick List | Deaths |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 6,236 | 66 | 9,515 | 219 | 815 | 70 | 18 | 68 | 2 | 298 | 4,797 | 701 | — | — |
| Men | 5,797 | 8,314 | 904 | 12 | 787 | 18 | 17 | 55 | 73 | 2,754 | 501 | 62 | — | — |
| Women | 277 | 109 | 164 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 146 | 37 | 189 | 5.08 | 19 | — | — |
| Juveniles | 162 | 0 | 151 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 150 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — |
> Note: The above table reconstructs the statistical return from OCR output; some figures may reflect OCR ambiguities (e.g., merged numbers, misread characters). Original printed columns: “Total Number of Persons Committed in 1912”, “For Debt”, “For Safe Custody till Trial or for Want of Security”, “For Purposes of Penal Imprisonment”, “Twice”, “Thrice or more”, “For Five Years or more”, “For One Year or more, but less than Five Years”, “For more than Three Months and less than One Year”, “For Three Months or less”, “The Daily Average Number in Prison”, “The Number of Admissions to Hospital during the Year 1912”, “The Daily Average Number on the Sick List”, “The Number of Deaths during 1912”.
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.
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I. If the Prison is on a separate system, is the separation complete? And, if not, what is the separation enforced by day and night respectively?
The Victoria Gaol is nearly on the separate system.
II. If not on the separate system, what provision is there for the supervision of the prisoners while in association?
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 supervision of Principal Warders, Warders, and Assistant Warders.
III. How many cells are there; and how many associated wards?
There are 577 cells on the separate system, 12 associated cells and 1 condemned cell.
IV. Taking the average number of prisoners in Gaol, how many cubic feet of space are there for each prisoner during the hours of sleep?
In separate cells: 664 cubic feet (approximate).
In association: 200 cubic feet.
V. How are the prisoners classified?
In classification their sentence and nationality are taken into consideration; they are classified as follows:
All the prisoners of the above classes are separated at night, and in the yards, as much as possible.
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STATISTICAL RETURN FOR THE PRISONS OF HONGKONG FOR 1912.
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Number Committed For Debt,
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Number of Persons Committed to
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Total Number of Persons Committed in 1912.
For Debt.
For Safe Custody till Trial
or for Want of Security.
For Purposes of Penal Imprisonment.*
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Twice.
Thrice or more.
For Five Years or more,
For One Year or more, but less than Five Years,
For more than Three Months. and less than One Year.
For Three Months or less,
The Daily Average Number in Prisott.
The Number of Admissions to Hospital during the Year 1912.
The Daily Average Number on the Sick List,
The Number of Deaths during 1912.
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Juveniles,
162
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151
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150
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Justice, as distinguished from imprisonment for Mafe custody, &c.
THESE QUESTIONS ARE TO BE FILLED UP IN RESPECT OF EACH PRISON IN THE COLONY.
Questions.
Answers.
I. If the Prison is ou a separate system, is the separation complete? And, if not, what is the separu- tion enforced by day and night respectively?
1I.—If not on the separate system, what provision is there for the supervision of the prisoners while in association ?
11.-How many cells are there; and how many associateıl wards ?
The Victoria Gnol is nearly on the separate system.
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, and Assistant Warders.
There are 577 cells on the separate system, 12 associated cells and 1 condemned coll.
IV. Taking the average number of prisoners in Gaol, how many cubic feet of space are there for each prisoner during the hours of sleep ?
V.-How are the prisoners classificul ?
In separate... In association
...........664 cubic feet.
(approximate) 200
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In classification their sentence and nationality are taken into consideration; they are classified as follows, viz. ;—
Europeans, Indians, and Chinese.
Debtors.
Misdemeanants.
On remand and awaiting trial.
First offenders.
Habitual criminals.
Juvenile offenders.
All the prisoners of the above classes are separated at night, and in the yards, as much as possible.
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