When I visited the gaol I was much struck
Joleming says
some little time ago
the evident overcrowding?
"Gen? Gordon's report for go says
remain unchanged.
The Prism buildings
... My
Recommendations for
annual
urgent
gail onlangerment and introduction of
the separate system appear to be bout
Wearitomne and useless reiterations"
He sprake g
{
the monstrous evils
" present garl system
2
g
the
in this
colony
and
1. the scandalous state of overtrouding
this
Gaol "
he says
were the superintendent of the gaol house Kreeker he would be
a lodging
" liable to a fine of $50 for every
one A
associated cells in Victorial
the present building. 318
Wtten
in adequacy
I
do not multiply
évidence
further as the
10140.91
is a suitable
the Whole tenor
the numbaless
1
20523.90
Writing on
the 16
of September 90
**
Sa F Fleming says
I was at once.
"Struck with what I considered to be
"the overcrowded state
J
the prison Sir W. des Voux did not much litte having handling the matter
any
more than Sin W. Robinson now, but
No one
has serious
disputed
the
above will probably be thought sufficient. Either of the Hongthong gaol"
hes sent to the various colonies
Mison cel prison despatches
has been mistaken.
Plaus
for
a
15 years ago.
new Qad were
were prepared nearly
There have been suggestions
for remodelling the present building or Wbuilding
on the same site - for using
a halth for providing temporary
accommo-
・dation elsewhere for short sentenced prisones. But it has all narrowed down to building a new prison
block by block
on a new site
We tried to reduce the number of prisonere by abolishing imprisonment for
debt
but they did such abolition was discoun- - tenanced in the colony.
The
were accustomed
X
community Hongkong to Wholetale departing flogging, branding: they thinks no doubt that
the
good
old times came back, there
if
would be no need for matting provision for many prisoners. They
Hever have
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