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Additions to Sentence. Three months ... ... ' ... 2 Attempt to escape. One month ... ... ... 1 Repeated violation of Gaol Regulations. 3 (14.) Two by 3 ; three by 2 ; four by 4 ; six by 1; seven by 1; eight by 1. (15.) 1873, 75 males, 19 females ; 1874, 86 males, 20 females; 1875, 94 males, 34 females; 1876, 168 males, 75 females; 1877, 167 males, 68 females. Generally for drunkenness and vagrancy. (16.) Prisoners are carefully examined on being brought to gaol, and their name, age, height, weight, and general appearance, with any particular marks they may have upon them, entered in the reception-book. (17.) Two—one by running from the public works, and the other by getting over the Gaol fence; recaptured almost immediately aud punished by A 7isiting Justices. Love of liberty. (18.) Loss of liberty—being kept constantly and steadily at hard labour, and being unable to obtain newspapers. 19. Very often. It is given to them when they leave the prison. 4. Number, Classification, and Separation of Prisoners. (1.) 1873—353 males, 43 females ; total, 396. 1874—467 males, 59 females; total, 526. 1875— 436 males, 97 females; total, 533. 1876—512 males, 104 females; total, 616. 1877—436 males, 91 females ; total, 527. Grand total, 2,204 males, 394 females. (2.) 528 ; 440 males, 88 females. Daily average—lB73, 41J ; 36J males, 5 females. 1874— 42 ; 36 males, 6 females. 1875—60; 48 males, 12 females. 1876—82 ; 70 males, 12 females. 1877— 74; 64 males, 10 females.

(3.) 1873. 1874. 1875. 1876. 1877. (a.) 8 12 3 13 21 (£.) 23 22 24 41 38. All non-criminal, (c.) 10 21 25 34 37 (d.) 311 4GG 467 532 457. This includes all classes, except those tried at Supreme Court. (e.) 17 92 97 180 172 (/) 1 2 1 4 13 months. 1 ... 14 2 6 months. ... 1 1 3 ... 9 months. 3 1 5 2 9 12 months. 2 ... 1 1 ... 18 months. 1 3 8 ... 4 24 months. (y.) 3 4 5 7 8 10 12 20 Years. Years. Years. Years. Years. Years. Years. Years. 1873 1874 3 1875 ... ... 1876 ... ... 1 1 ... 2 ... 1 1877 ... ... 3 3 2 ... 2 1 1 (A.) Nil. (i.) 1873, 3 ; 1874, 3 ; 1875, 8 ; 1876, 7 ; 1877, 2. (k.) 1873. 1874. 1875. 1876. 1877. Women. Girls. Women. Girls. Women. Girls. Women. Girls. Women. Girls. 43 ... 53 6 92 5 100 4 88 3

(4.) (a.) Kept in a room by themselves, and have a separate exercising yard, (b.) Placed with those awaiting trial, unless too violent; then confined to their cell, (c.) Kept apart from convicted prisoners sentenced to hard labour, but drunkards and convicted prisoners not sent to hard labour are placed with them; also (b). (d.) If sentenced to hard labour, put with (/). (c.) Put with (c). (f.) Kept in a ward with those sentenced to hard labour or summary conviction, and have a separate exercising yard apart from all other prisoners, (g.) Have a separate ward and exercising yard apart from all other prisoners ; they are also separate at Divine service, fi) None, except confining them to their cells, (k.) Kept in separate gaols; have also separate exercising yards. (5.) Penal-servitude prisoners can communicate with long-sentenced hard-labour prisoners at work only ; not at all with other classes. 5. Work done by Prisoners. (1.) At present none. (2.) Hard labour: Making roads, breaking stones, and making bricks—males; picking oakum and washing—females. Industrial: Shoemaking, carpenters' work, paiuting, or any other useful trade —males. (3.) (a.) Picking oakum, shoemaking, carpenter's work, and painting, by males. Picking oakum, washing and repairing clothing, and making their own wearing apparel, by women. (b.) Brickmaking at the New Hospital site by the penal-servitude and long-sentenced hard-labour men; roadmaking at Hospital Reserve, Wellington Terrace, by short-sentenced hard-labour men. (c.) Association at work and at meals; mixing with bricklayers and bricklayers' labourers at New Hospital site, and with free labourers while putting bricks into and removing them from the kiln; at Wellington Terrace with carters and free labourers, (d.) Shoemaking only can be taught here at present..