CO129-107 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1865 [10-12] — Page 234

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INTERROGATORY XXV.

State whether you attempt the reformation of prisoners by marks, by remissions or gradations of punishment within the prison, by gratuities, or how otherwise.

Ausiver

232

The marst systein has been found mapplicable in this Colony, but a scale of remission of sentences & of gratuities

is li well deserving prisoners has been d'ausi

up and approved by the secretary of State.

Every

inducement is held out to the prisoners

ment with

by the Government

prisoners

a view to then moral

and social reformation, many of whom beth-

Chrirese and

Engreans have been sent to their

others *

native place; and are now

being supported by

the G

Government with a viewv te retain them.

in the parts of honesty.

* M. Douglas states that in

this remark

he alludes to the number of destitute Europeans of all Nations that have been given shelter in this Gaol and a meal Morning and Evening. Some of these have

been provided with pappages. then have) gained o Employment, though many

remain a burden on

stile

the Colony.

WAR

acs

14 Nov: 1865.

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