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GAOLS AND PRISONERS.

STATISTICAL RETURN FOR THE PRISONS OF HONGKONG FOR 1917.

Name and Nature

of the Prisons, (Whether

"Common Gaol," "Penitentiary." &c.)

•

Mere Lock-ups "

not to

be inserted.

"Victoria Gaol,”- Common Gaol, House of)

Correction, also re-

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Total Number of Persons Committed in 1917,

For Debt.

For Safe Custody till Trial

or for Want of Security,

For l'urposes of Fenal

Imprisonment.*

Once.

Twice.

| Thrice or more.

For Five Years or more,

Number Committed for Debt,

Want of Bail,

and Punishment,

Number of those

Committed

who have been

Number of Persona

Committed to

Penal Imprisonment,"

including

"Penal Servitude,"

previously Convicted. (if that term is used in the

Colony to describe any

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.

Punishment).

The Daily Average Number in Prison.

The Number of Admissions to Hospital during the Year 1917.

The Daily Average Number on the Sick List.

The Number of Deaths during 1917,

ceives Prisoners sen- tenced to Penal Ser- vitude, ko,

13.386

62

286 628 2,706

119 15

*

51

74

256 | 2,325

6111

Total...

3,356 62

628 2.706

286

119

15

51

74

250 2,325

600

Men,

3,186 50

BS7 2,549

283

116

15

I

51

70

234 2.194 501

Women,

147

01

Į

41

104

Nil. Nil. Nil.

Nil.

21

79 |

H

Juveniles,

63 Nit.

NII.

53

3 Nil. Kil. Xil.

1

52

252

9-2 10

By Penal Imprisonment is meant imprisonment inflicted na 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 EACH PRISON IN THE COLONY.

Questions.

Answers.

1. If the Prison is on a separate system, is the separation complete ? And, if not, what is the separu- tion enforced by day sul night respectively ?

II.—If not on the separate system, what provision is there for the supervision of the prisoners whila in

association?

III-How many cells are there; and how many associated wards ?

The Victoria Gaol 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 Priucipul Warders, Wurders, and Assistant Warders.

There are 655 cells on the separate system, 12 associated cells and 1 condemned cell.

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

V.—How are the prisoners clusnitie: ?

In separate..... In association

.....664 cubic feet. -(approximate) 200 17 39

Ju classification their sentence and nationality are taken into consideration; they are claseitled as follows, viz. :—

Europeans, Indians, and Chinese.

Debtors.

Misdemeanants.

On remand and awaiting trial.

First offenders.

Habitual critvinals.

Juvenile offendors.

All the prisoners of the above classes are separated

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