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(/.) Hard-labour convicts, (on indictment) not exceeding three, six, nine, twelve, eighteen, and twenty-four months. (g.) Penal-servitude prisoners, different terms. (h.) Convicts, sentence of death commuted ; for what ? (i.) Juvenile offenders. (k.) Women and girls. (4.) What means of separation in force, respecting classes just enumerated. A.— By Construction. B.— By Discipline, (a.) At work. (b.) Meals. (c.) Exercise. (d.) Divine service. (5.) What amount and kind of communication with other classes ? s.— Work done by Prisoners. (1.) Distinction, if any, between hard labour and penal-servitude labour. (2.) What understood to be " hard labour " —any distinction from industrial labour ? (3.) Kinds of labour done, — (a.) Iv prison. (b.) Out of it; where? And by what class of convicts ? By men? By women ? (c.) Means of communication among prisoners, or between prisoners and public, during work out of doors. (d.) What trades can be taught, and in what time can they be learned sufficiently well to earn a livelihood ? (4.) Time occupied by labour daily,— How rest of working hours employed ? (5.) A 7alue of labour. (a.) Penal-servitude men. (b.) Hard-labour men. (c.) Voluntary labour, if any. (6.) Is any allowance granted for extra work, and of what nature ? Is any payment made on completion of sentence for marks earned ? (7.) AVhat is the best way to teach prisoners industrious habits and endurance of sustained labour? (8.) How ought offenders who will not work be dealt with ? (9.) How can prison labour be made most profitable to the State? (10.) What sums, if any, have been paid by municipalities or other local bodies for prison labour ? (11.) Do the prisoners grow any of the food used in the gaol ? (12.) Is there any Crown or other land near the gaol available for a farm, and if so, could such farm be worked to advantage ? 6. — What differences other than in Labour made between Penal-servitude and Hard-labour Men ? 7.— Special provisions, if any, for Juvenile Offenders and Females, and Lunatic Prisoners? B.— Food and Indulgences. (1.) Scales of rations for different classes. (2.) Reduction or increase for punishment or encouragement. (3.) AA 7ould a low scale of rations have a deterrent effect in the case of first offenders? (4.) Tobacco allowed or not, and if so, within what limits, and subject to what condition ? (5.) AVhat food or physical indulgence most coveted, and what physical restraint or deprivation most dreaded ? (6.) Are visits from friends and communications with the world without sought for and appreciated, and what are their apparent effects? (7.) Are any special indulgences given or allowed for extra work ? 9.— Medical and Hygeian. (1.) Report by medical men on salubriousness of site, propriety of construction, ventilation, sewerage. (2.) General health of prisoners. (3.) Deaths in last five years, compared with averages out of prison in same place. (4.) Special diseases, if any, in prison or place, and causes ? (5.) Sufficiency, excess, and propriety of rations, and with respect to different classes ? (6.) Apparent physical effects on prisoners generally, and in individual instances ? (7.) Hospital arrangements ? (8.) Medical officers should be invited to give written statements of any matters they deem specially worthy of notice ? 10. — Religious and other Instruction offered. (1.) Average numbers of various denominations ? (2.) AVhat clergymen attend the prison; of what denomination, and how often ? (3.) Effect of their ministrations— (a) as reported by themselves; (b) as reported by the officers of the prisons ?

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