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GAOLS AND PRISONERS.

STATISTICAL RETURN FOR THE PRISONS OF HONG KONG FOR 1929.

Naine and Nature"

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

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5.779

1544

Total Number of Persons Committed in 1929,

For Debt.

For Safe Custody till Trini

or for Want of Security.

For Purposes of Penal Imprisonment."

Once.

Twice.

Thrice or more.

For Five Years or more,

For Que Year or more, but

less than Five Years,

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

For Three Months or less,

Number Committed for Doll.

Want of Bail,

Number of those

Committed

who have been

Number of l'ersons Committed to

→ Penal Imprisonment,"

including "Penal Servitude,”

nyul Punishment, previonsly Convicted, (if that term is used in the

Colony to describe any

l'unishment).

The Daily Average Number in Prison.

The Number of Admissions to Hospital during the Year 1929.

The Daily Average Number on the Sick List:

The Number of Deaths during 1929.

"Victoria Gnol.”- Common Gaol, House of

Correction, also R-

ceives Prisoners ken- tenced to Penal Ser- vitude, ke,

983 | 4.780 | 1,013

108

15

31 | 324

6V8 3.517

1.075

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Total..........

5.779

*63

983 4.780 | 1,013

10%

15

31

221

208 3,617

1,075

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Men,

.........! 4,707

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776 · 1,380

945

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15

31

200

352 8,188 998

Women,

Juveniles,

480

NIL

146

384

20

Nil.

Nil.

|

16

49

270

71

3586 | 31.78

18

78

NIL.

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3

Sil

Sil NIL

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* By "Penal Imprisonment ” is meant imprisonment inflicted as a substantive punishment in prusuance of a sentence of a Court

of Justice, as distinguished from imprisonment for safe custody, ke.

THESE QUESTIONS ARE TO BE FILLED UP IN RESPECT OF EACH PRISON IN THE COLONY,

Questions.

I-If the Prison is on a 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 wands ?

IV. Taking the average mumber of prisoners in Gaol, how many cubic feet of space are there for oach prisoner during the hours of sleep?

V.—llow are the prisoners classified ?

Ansteers.

The Victoria Gaol is nearly ou the separate system. The Braneb Prison at Lai Chi Kok is not on the supurate system. Prisoners work and sleep in asso-

ciation,

Victoria Gaol :~All well doors are provided with inspection holes through which the prisoners can be While ut sven by the officers patrolling the wards. labour or exercise the prisoners ure at all times under the immediate supervision of Principal Wardere, Warders, and Assistant Warders. At Lai Chi Kok Branch Prison, officers patrol behind grilles at night.

Victorin Guol:- 637 cells on the separate system, 9 association cells, I condemned cell and 1 padded vell, Lai Chi Kok:- * Halls—ench Hall can accom- modate 60 prisoners.

Victoria Guol:-

―

In separate

In association

..664 cubic feet.

....(approximate) 200

*

13

Lai Chi Kok:-There are 602 cubie feet to-osch prisoner and each one has 54 sq. feet of window cap- able of being opened.

In classification their sentences and nationality ure taken into consideration; they are classified as followɛ, viz.:-

Females.

Europeant, Indians, and Chinese.

Convicted adult prisoners.

Debiturs.

MisdemeanaN(9,

On remaud and

awaiting trial. Juvenile offemiers.

All the prisoners of the above classes are sepurated

at night, and in the yards, so far as possible.

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