CO129-064 - Sir Bowring - 1857 [8-10] — Page 287

I attribute the very uncatisfactory condition of the d'ail referred to in

my Despatch of the 75 Ming 1857 mainu to

May the following cances -

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petly the very limited accommodation

provided for prisoners -

-

A

number varying from 250 to 330 men being confinch in premises not suited for the becoming incarceration

of

more than about 180.–

2ndly the care of

the Sail had been

princitally entrusted to

the Jarin

a man

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inferio qualifications but

quite as good

as wa

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procurable for the amount

of the Salary allowed him

viz

€ 125 per

aunum.

zoots. The little interest shown by

the

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of un-fficial

general code of a Justices of the Pence in"

any

matter which concerned the Goverment or the improvemanc of the Jail.

4th the difficulty of communicating with the Prisonces (Exinese fou

a

the most part) and the imposcibility of organizing satisfactory system of productive labour in 20 crowded and confined

an

area as the present Jail.