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
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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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