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AJMER JAIL.
exceeding six months 105, above six months but not exceeding one year 42, above one year but
not exceeding two years 26, above two years but not exceeding five years 13, above five years
but not exceeding ten years 7. Two convicts were sentenced to transportation for life.
Previous conviction.
(6) The number of previously convicted prisoners admitted during the year was 110 as
compared with 96 in 1909. The percentage of
convicts having previous convictions (to the said
521 convicts) was 21.11 as compared with 30.87
in the preceding year.
Employment of convicts.
(7) The daily average number of convicts sentenced to labour on working days was 233.44,
of whom 131.49 were employed on manufactures,
37.39 on preparing articles for consumption in
Jail, 8.96 on gardening, 13.95 were engaged as prison officers and 30.87 as servants and 9.75
were exempted from labour.
Conduct of prisoners.
(8) The number of Jail punishments of all kinds was 119 as compared with 214 in the
preceding year. The discipline of the Jail continu-
ed to be good.
The punishments inflicted are classed as below :—
(1) Solitary confinement . . . . . . . . . . .
(2)Reduced diet . . . . . . . . . . .
(3) Corporal punishment . . . . . . . . . . .
(4) Other punishment . . . . . . . . . . .
8
20
1
90
119
Escapes.
(9) No person escaped from the Jail during the
year under review.
Health.
(10) The health of the prisoners was good throughout the year. The number of admissions
to the Jail Hospital was 219 against 175 in 1909.
There were three deaths as compared with seven
in the preceding year.
Juvenile offenders.
(11) There were 26 Juvenile offenders including 1 left at the close of the last year in the
Jail as against 5 in 1909. Of these 21 boys and 2
girls were released on expiration of their sentences
and 3 boys remained in Jail on the 31st December 1910. Only one offence of a trivial nature
was recorded against them during the year against 2 in the previous year.
Jail manufacture.
(12) The profit from Jail manufactures amounted to R2,508-6-5 as against R2,462-4-0
during the preceding year. The average earning
per head of prisoners actually employed on manu-
factures rose from R16-7-7 in the previous year to R19-1-3 during the year under review.
Expenditure.
(13) The total expenditure in guarding and maintaining the prisoners fell from R26,361
in 1909 to R23,226 in 1910 showing a decrease of
R3,135. This decrease chiefly occurred under
heads " Rations " and " Public Works Charges." The sum includes the charges incurred by
Magistrates in guarding and maintaining undertrial prisoners and the expenditure incurred
by the Public Works Department, viz., R3,115-2-6 on buildings and repairs. The average
cost per prisoner during the year was R78-4-4 as against R77-6-10 in the previous year and
R90-13-6 in the year 1908.
Net cost to Government.
(14) Including the cost of undertrial prisoners incurred by Magistrates and deducting
R1,707-3-5 payable by Native States on account
of their prisoners, the net cost of the Jail to Govern-
ment was R21,518-12-7 as compared with R23,899 in the preceding year.
General remarks.
(15) The Jail was inspected twice by the Commissioner and Inspector General of Jails,
Ajmer, and was visited twice by the Assistant
Commissioner, Ajmer.
W. STRATTON, Lieutenant-Colonel,
Commissioner, Ajmer-Merwara.