HARD LABOUR

Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 18, 20 July 1918, Page 4

HARD LABOUR

IN DOMINION PRISONS

WORK FOR OTHER PRISONERS.

The trades and occupations at which prisoners may be employed are set out in regulations under the' Prisons Act, gazetted this week.

Prisoners sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour may be required to work at any one of the following trades or occupations (first schedule) : Agricultural work, blacksmithing, brijlnnaking, carpentry ; concrete blocks, tiles, and making of other concrete products; concretemixing, draining and ditching, excavating, general building work hammer and chill work, plastering, ploughing, roadmaking, sone-breaking, stone-dressing, tinsmithing, wall-building. Prisoners not sentenced to hard labour are to be employed at one of the following trades or occupations (second schedule) : Basketmaking, bootmaking, brushmairing, cabinetmaking, cleaning and washing, coir-mat making, cooking, gardening, oakum-picking, painting, physical drill, sweeping, tailoring, and any other light labour not included in the hard labour schedule.

Misdemeanants of the First Division, who are imprisoneod for non-compliance with the order of any Court to pay a. sum of money, or imprisoned' in respect of a distress to satisfy a sum of money ordered to'be paid by a. Court of justice, shall be required to keep their cells and utensils clean and in; good order, and shall receive the scale of rations laid down for prisoners not working at hsurd 1 labour. They shall be kept- /separate from the criminal prisoners, and shall be allowed visits daily at a convenient hour, and to correspond daily with their friends.

Misdemeanants of the First Division, imprisoned in default of maintenance under the destitute Persons Acts, slra.ll be required to work at one of the occupations prescribed in the Second Schedule, and shall receive the scale of rations laid down for prisoners not working at hard labour, unless tho Inspector of Prisons shall direct that they are to be given the scale provided for hardlabour prisoners. They shall be kept as faa- as possible separate from criminal prisoners, and shall bo allowed visits weekly at a convenient hour. They shall be allowed to correspond twice in each week with their relatives and- friends.

Every person convicted of an offence and not sentenced to hard labour shall be treated as a misdemeanant of the Second Division, unless the Court or Judge before whom such person has been tried otherwise orders. Second Class misdemeanants shall be required to work at one of the occupations prescribed in the Second Schedule and shall receive the scale of rations laid' down for prisoners not working at hard labour, unless the Inspector of Prisons shall direct that they are to be given the scale provided for hard-labour pris* oners. They shall be kept as far as possible separate from criminal prisoners, and shall be allowed visits fortnightly at a convenient hour. They shall be allowed to correspond once in each fortnight with their relatives and friends.