training before assuming their duties and there are signs that it will be possible in due course to create an efficient and reliable local staff.
Discipline
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Prison discipline has generally been good though marred at times by fights between different factions using improvised weapons made out of bamboo, tin, pieces of scrap metal found in the workshops and tools in the course of labour. For such offences corporal punishment has been permitted with a markedly deterrent effect. Several attempts to escape
Several attempts to escape from prison have been frustrated, but one man succeeded in running away from an outside working party. Five boys escaped from the Reforma- tory, an open institution, but three of them were brought back by the Police.
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