CO129-251 - Acting Governor Barker - 1891 [9-11] — Page 564

It

En closures 374.

566

C. O.

24864

RECP

İRE 29 DEC 91

is proposed that all prisoners

sentenced to one

year's imprisonment

and over should be secured

by fetters, but these fetters

could be removed order

of

by

the Superintendent from. prisoners who behave well,

d from prisoners employed

and

on industrial work or at-

work where th

impede the

would

they's wearer.

There is no doubt but that

the wearing of fetters is much disliked by

the Prisoners and

by th

such being the case I convicter that they should be used.

By wearing fetters a long. sentence prisoner has much. less chance of weaping, and until the separate system,

ло

fully