CO129-246 - Acting Governor Fleming - 1890 [8-9] — Page 709

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Present buildings converted }

to separate systour

New Block 222 feet in

length fitted with

Cells

1267

cells each 600 cubic ft.

186

Add 50 per cent

93

Total

279

546

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that it is.

provide

for the

It follows therefore physically impossible to

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the

separate system

maximum number of

convicts for whom provision should be made (which cannot I think.

be safely reckoned at less than

700) by any practicable extension

or

assuming

the present site, even assi that the Home Authorities sanctioned. cells each of 400 cubic feet. There would appear to be only

orre

way

out of the difficulty, so far as the existing site is concerned, and that is to reserve the new Block

for

41

705

for long sentence convicts and confirmed criminals, where they would be treated on

the

separate system, and retain the associated system

in the expisting

building, (or at least over

the greater

part of it) for the short sentence convicts . By this means, and it

appears to

only,

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by this

neaus

cored the whole of the d convicts be lodged without overcrowding.

8.

I estivate the cost

of the alterations above described and shown on the Drawing

2

as follows:-

9.5.0.

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