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Q-Do you think it would be better if it were in force?
A---I think it would be a very good power.
Q-You think it might prevent it being necessary to resort to corporal punish-
ment ?
A-I think so.
Q--The deprivation of the evening meal is not resorted to except on the day before a prisoner leaves, and as far as your experience goes the restraining in handcuffs is not resorted to ?
A--Handcuffs yes, but not the cross irons.
Q-Handcuffs are used?
A-They have been used on two or three occasions.
Q---Are those modes of punishment in vogue in England ?
A-Yes, with violent prisoners.
Q-Do you get a number of violent prisoners here?
A-Yes.
Q-I believe a prisoner forfeits a certain number of marks for a flogging?
A-I believe that has been repealed.
Q-Regulation 321 says: "72 marks for a flogging.'
A-That has been repealed.
Q--Do you ever delegate your duties to any one else in case of flogging?
A-No.
Q-You have never asked or obtained leave for anybody else to do that portion of your work?
A-Not since I have been in the Gaol.
Q-Regulation 61 says "The head turnkeys shall especially attend to carrying into effect all orders as to punishments to be inflicted on prisoners."
A-That does not refer to corporal punishments.
Q-"The Superintendent shall deliver daily to the Surgeon a list of prisoners in solitary confinement and also a list of prisoners who have suffered or who are about to suffer corporal punishment." Do you know whether the Superintendent delivers daily to the Surgeon a list of the prisoners who have suffered or are about to suffer corporal punishment?
A-It is delivered by myself.
Q-Do you enter your attendance at all corporal punishments in the "Occurrence Book"?
A-It is entered in the Occurrence Book.
Q-Do you enter it ?
A-No, the clerk?
Q-You have to enter the direction of the Surgeon thereon. What does that
mean?
A-It means in the case of the Surgeon remitting part of the punishment.
Q-If the Surgeon sends the prisoner to the Hospital? A-That would be entered in the house book.
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