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tried here. The consequence is that prisoners, especially those undergoing long sentences, seeing no hope of obtaining their liberation before the expiration of their term, become desperate, and are ready to incur risk to effect their escape.
3. To put a stop to this indulgence can be done by making it clear that remission is earned. A scale of remission should be drawn up in a clear manner and be conspicuously hung up in the Prisons, so that every prisoner might have constantly before him the advantages to be derived by his cheerful obedience to the Gaol regulations, and by the due performance of all allotted tasks.
4. In these representations, I entirely concur. The necessity of some measure of the kind has been represented to me very forcibly, and accordingly, I have the honor to submit for your approval a scale of remission of sentences which I think suitable for this colony, and which I believe to be similar to the regulations as to discharge at present in force in the Convict prisons in Bermuda, under the authority of the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Messrs. Tomlin and Douglas, the Superintendents of the two prisons, have also represented to me the difficulty they experience at present in maintaining proper discipline, and in exacting a fair amount of work from the Convicts. They consider it very desirable that a graduated scale of remission increasing in proportion to the length of sentence, together with the conditions upon which it is granted, should be clearly defined.
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tried here. The consequence is that prisoners, expecially those undergoing long. Sentences, seeing no hope of obtaining their liberation before the Expiration of their
term, become desperate, and are
ready.
incur
risk to
any
effect
their
Escape.
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this
indulgence
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be
up
in a
earned, should be drawn
clear manner and be consta
conspienonsly
hung up in the Prisons, so that every prisoner
might have constantly before him the- advantages to be derived
by his cheerful ~
Obedience to the Gaol regulations, and by the
due
performance of all allotted tasks
4.
In these representations I entirely
Concur
represented to me
very forcibly the necessity of
and
accordingly
for your approval
Mor Tomlin and Mer Douglas, the Superintendents of the two prisons, have
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some measure of the kind, and the difficulty
which
they experience at present in maintaining proper discipline, and in exacting a fair amount
of work from the Convicts. They consider it
very
desirable that a
graduated Scale
of-
remission increasing in proportion to the length of sentence, together with the
conditions
upon
which
submit
a scale of remission of sentences which I think
suitable
for
this toolony, and which I believe
regulations
as to discharge
to be similar to the
in the Convict
at
prisons
the Secretary
at present in force Bermuda, under the authority of
of State for the Home Department.
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