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145 Chap III.
PROTECTION
Prisons.
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The total number of prisons in this Presidency during the year Number,
1878 was 125, classified as shown
in the margin. There has been
an addition of an extramural gang
at Ashti; and 26 places of con
finement, many of which had been
merely constituted subordinate jails
temporarily, in order to relieve the
pressure upon the regular prisons
during 1877, were, during the year
under report, again converted into lock-ups, and no longer classed
under the heading of subordinate jails. The number of the latter
class of institutions is still 20 above what it was in 1876. Two
of the district jails have juvenile prisons attached to them, and
the Sassoon Reformatory in Bombay receives convicts below
the age of 16 who cannot conveniently be sent either to Poona or
Shikarpur. The extramural gangs were at work at Nara in Sind,
Gokak in Belganm, and for part of the year at Ashti in Sholapur,
and Nira in the Poona District.
The number of persons confined, as given in Appendix III, Prisoners.
D (1), was 57,336, as compared with 61,309 in 1877. Of these,
however, 3,915 were persons under trial, leaving 53,421 actual
convicts, including 5,707 received by transfer. The number of
admissions was 34,860, or 17* per cent less than last year, but
still 76* per cent in excess of the average of the three years
preceding 1877. The year 1878 opened with an aggregate of
12,854 convicts in jail against 9,426 at the beginning of 1877,
or an increase of 3,428 persons. The increased length of the
sentences of imprisonment passed during 1878, combined with
the large balance remaining at the end of 1877, tended to raise the
daily average number confined from 11,718 to 12,946, the slight
decrease in subordinate jails, owing to the abolition of so many of
those institutions, being insufficient to counterbalance the causes
above specified, which were operative in the district jails. There
were 12,081 convicts and 238 prisoners under trial remaining at
the end of the year, whilst on the corresponding date in 1877 the
numbers were respectively 12,888 and 293. Taking convicted
prisoners alone, the daily average throughout the year rose from
11,411 to 12,752, or 11*74 percent.
The variations in the number of admissions in the different
parts of the Presidency accompany, for the most part, those in the
price of food. In the Deccan and Western Karnatic, where the
increase last year was most marked, the price of food, though
b 385—19
Prison.
Number in
1877.
1878.
Central Jail
1
1
District Jails
23
23
Subordinate Jails...
123
97
Extramural Gangs .
3
4
Total ...
150
125