CO129-293 - Governor Sir Blake - 1899 [8-9] — Page 205

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New rule Old rule Remarks 202 252 286 253 254 Conf336 255 287 256 288 of labour under rule 257. The yard space being limited it is desirable that the Governor should have power to approve such new forms of labour as it may be found possible to utilise from time to time. 339 Rearranged and with the alteration that under the new rule it is left to the discretion of the Superintendent what form of industrial labour the convict shall be kept at after the period of separate confinement is completed. In the interest of the gaol industries it is desirable that the Superintendent should have that discretion. New. A Distinction is made between first offenders and old offenders, which is in accordance with the actual practice hitherto observed in the gaol. Recast. The period of No.1 Hard labour to be exacted from first offenders with sentences of less than two years is reduced to 42 days from that more of the time of a well conducted prisoner may be spent at Industrial labour. Imantha The corresponding period of hard unproductive labour in local prisons at home is 28 days only. Public opinion in England has declared against unproductive hard labour and did the prison accommodation permit, I would recommend its abolition here. uwproductive The elimination of prisoners with sentences of 14 days and under from hard labour has been abolished. Such exemption not in accordance with the practice at home, and it is difficult to understand why it was introduced here

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1 New rule Old rule Remarks 202 252 286 253 254 Conf336 255 287 256 288 of labour under rule 257. The yard space being limited it is desirable that the Governor should have power to approve such new forms of labour as it may be found possible to utilise from time to time. 339 Rearranged and with the alteration that under the new rule it is left to the discretion of the Superintendent what form of industrial labour the convict shall be kept at after the period of separate confinement is completed. In the interest of the gaol industries it is desirable that the Superintendent should have that discretion. New. A Distinction is made between first offenders and old offenders, which is in accordance with the actual practice hitherto observed in the gaol. Recast. The period of No.1 Hard labour to be exacted from first offenders with sentences of less than two years is reduced to 42 days from that more of the time of a well conducted prisoner may be spent at Industrial labour. Imantha The corresponding period of hard unproductive labour in local prisons at home is 28 days only. Public opinion in England has declared against unproductive hard labour and did the prison accommodation permit, I would recommend its abolition here. uwproductive The elimination of prisoners with sentences of 14 days and under from hard labour has been abolished. Such exemption not in accordance with the practice at home, and it is difficult to understand why it was introduced here The text has been rearranged into a table format as the data appears to be comparative data between new and old rules. Minor corrections were made to spelling errors (e.g., "offenderd" to "offenders", "didence" not present but "discretion" used, "fngland" to "England", "elumination" to "elimination", "recor→dance" to "accordance", "xx-" not corrected as it seems to be an OCR error but no clear correction is available). The original formatting and content have been preserved as much as possible. was removed as per rule 12 and 16, and the output is now in HTML format using and tags as required.

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1 ! New rule Old rule Remarks 202 252 286 253 254 Conf336 255 287 256 288 339 of labour under rule 257. The yard space being limited it is desirable that the Governor should have power to approve such new forms of labour as it may be found possible to utilise from time to time. Rearranged and with the alteration that under the new rule it is left to the dis- cretion of the Superintendent what form of industrial labour the convict shall be kept et after the period of separate confinement is completed. In the interest of the gaol industries it is desirable that the Sup- erintendent should have that discretion. New. A Distinction is made between first offenders and old offenderd,which is in accordance with the actual practice hither- to observed in the gaol. Recast. The period of No.1 Hard labour to be exacted from first offenders with xx- sentences of less than two years is reduced Imantha to 42 days from that more of the time of a well conduc- ted prisoner may be spent at Industrial labour. The corresponding period of hard in uwproductive labour in local prisons at home is 28 days only. Public opinion in fngland has declared against unproductive hard labour and did the prison accommodation permit, I would recommend its abolition here. The elumination of prisoners with sentences of 14 days and under from hard labour has been abolished. Such exemption not in recor→ dance with the practice at home, and it is difficult to understand why it was introduced here

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of labour under rule 257. The yard space

being limited it is desirable that the

Governor should have power to approve such

new forms of labour as it may be found

possible to utilise from time to time.

Rearranged and with the alteration that

under the new rule it is left to the dis-

cretion of the Superintendent what form of

industrial labour the convict shall be kept

et after the period of separate confinement

is completed. In the interest of the gaol

industries it is desirable that the Sup-

erintendent should have that discretion.

New. A Distinction is made between

first offenders and old offenderd,which is

in accordance with the actual practice hither-

to observed in the gaol.

Recast. The period of No.1 Hard labour

to be exacted from first offenders with

xx-

sentences of less than two years is reduced

Imantha

to 42 days from that more of the time of a well conduc-

ted prisoner may be spent at Industrial

labour. The corresponding period of hard in

uwproductive labour in local prisons at home

is 28 days only. Public opinion in fngland

has declared against unproductive hard

labour and did the prison accommodation

permit, I would recommend its abolition here.

The elumination of prisoners with sentences

of 14 days and under from hard labour has

been abolished. Such exemption not in recor→

dance with the practice at home, and it is

difficult to understand why it was introduced

here

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