SUMMARY of the PUNISHMENTS and OFFENCES during the Year ended 31st December, 1926, in each of the Local and Convict Prisons, &c.—continued. Punishments.

*Total Number of Persons detained in

Prisoners or Inmates

each

punished.

Establishment

Violence.

53

NOTES.-The number of offences committed and the number of punishments awarded do not, of course, agree, it being the practice in some cases to award concurrently several forms of punishment for one offence, while in others the offence is met by admonition without punishment.

• This number is larger than the total prison population, as it comprises, (a) the number of inmates of each establishment on 1st January, 1926, and (b) the numbers subsequently admitted to the establishment either by committal or transfer.

Confirmed

The offence was of a serious character, being Confirmed committed in a workshop in the presence of about 80 other prisoners, and creating a serious disturbance.

The assault was deliberate and unprovoked, and in the interest of prison discipline corporal punishment was necessary.

12, Birch

12, Birch

Confirmed

10, Birch

Dartmoor

C.E.H.

Gross personal violence to an officer of the prison.

12, Cat

Parkhurst

J.P.

Gross personal violence to an officer of the prison.

The offence was of such a serious character as
to render the infliction of corporal punishment
necessary for the due preservation of dis-
cipline.

12, Birch The infliction of corporal punishment was
necessary for the due preservation of discipline
and the offence was entirely unprovoked, and
deserved exceptional punishment.

STATEMENT of the EMPLOYMENT and VALUE of the LABOUR of PRISONERS in LOCAL, CONVICT and PREVENTIVE DETENTION PRISONS, and INMATES of BORSTAL INSTITUTIONS for the Year ended 31st March, 1927.