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VICTORIA GAOL (MALE).
5. 18,756,343 forms were printed and issued to various Government departments and 88,002 books bound or repaired as compared with 20,009,335 forms and 123,809 books in 1935. During the year important printing work hitherto done by the Government Printers was satisfactorily performed by the Prison Printery.
6. Other industries included matmaking tailoring, carpentering, tinsmithing, painting, laundering, shoemaking, netmaking and basketmaking. Prisoners were also employed on the usual routine upkeep work, including minor building repairs.
7.
The Gaol was as usual overcrowded.
8. The workshop accommodation is inadequate.
9. There was no escape. There was one attempt to escape
(237 on 30.10.36).
10. There was no execution during the year.
LAI CHI KOK PRISON.
11. Garden work continued to give useful employment. Other work done at Lai Chi Kok, apart from the essential routine duties of cooking, cleaning, etc., included string and netmaking, coir matmaking, basket and broom making, and grass mat- making.
12. There was no escape or attempt to escape.
FEMALE PRISON LAI CHI KOK.
13. This prison was also overcrowded. Although con- structed to accommodate 120 the numbers have frequently been over 200.
14. Female prisoners are employed chiefly on laundry work and mending. Other employment includes cooking, weaving, envelope making, and a little gardening.
15. Lady Visitors as hitherto attended regularly for instructional purposes. Sisters from the Italian Convent visited on Saturdays, and ladies of the Church Missionary Society on Sundays, to give religious addresses. The adminis- tration would again like to express thanks to all these ladies for their valued and gratuitious services.
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GENERAL.
16. 430 punishments were awarded for breaches of prison discipline as compared with 324 for the preceding year. Corporal punishment was inflicted in thirteen cases for prison offences.
17. Sixty-three prisoners were whipped by order of Courts.
18. There was again an increase in the number of prisoners convicted in the New Territory Courts (see paragraph 3).
19. Owing to overcrowding in the prisons 1,063 males were released before expiration of sentence. necessary to release any women prematurely.
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20. The general behaviour of the prisoners and the discipline in all three prisons was very good.
21. The health of the prisoners maintained.
Was satisfactorily
22. The conduct of the officers was on the whole exemplary.
23.
The general health of the Staff was good.
24. The new prison at Stanley is nearing completion and
will be occupied in 1937.
22nd March, 1937.
J. W. FRANKS, Superintendent of Prisons.
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