CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5] — Page 340

Li

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Averages

of 1st period of 1⁄2nd period

• Number previously convicted

138 224

(Number previously Convicted)

Twice 57 102

Number previously convicted

three or more times 41 109

Sentenced to 5 years or more

Sentenced 1 year to 5 years 14 30

103 114

Sentenced 3 months 278 346

Sentenced 3 months or less 2633 2702

388 589

Sentenced less than 12 months

Daily average in prison

Whilst the total number of

persons sentenced to penal

imprisonments has very slightly increased during the last ten years, the daily average number

in Gaol has, on the other hand,

very largely increased, and this increase has taken place during the last quinquennial period and has progressed steadily since 1874. The explanation of this apparent contradiction is,

I believe, to be found in the larger number

of prisoners who have been sentenced during the latter period to long terms of imprisonment; and also in the discontinuance

of the practice of deporting prisoners from the Colony.

5.

That confinement in

the Victoria Gaol has not a

great deterrent effect is an opinion

which I have already expressed

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