The Sun.
London, England, 1861-04-12 00:00:00

SCOTTISH PRISONS.

The annual report on the prisons of Scotland has
been laid before Parliament. It states that in the
year ending on the 30th of June last the number of
commitments was 19,102; of sentences, 15,883,
numbers slightly below those of the previous
year. A very large proportion were of a class
corresponding to our " summary conviction ; "
5,366 were cases of :imprisonment until, or in-
stead of, payment of a fine, or until the finding
of sureties to keep the peace ; 10,308 were sen-
tences of imprisonment for definite periods, but
no less than 9,179 of them were for less
than three months, and 2,668 for not more than
10 days. There were but 207 sentences of penal
servitude, and two of death (afterwards commuted j.
Of the prisoners committed during the year 1,935
were under 18 years of age, 1,062 under 16, and
95 juvenile male offenders were sentenced to a whip-
ping. Among the prisoners punished for miscon-
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states that 487 of them had been in prison before,
one woman 59 times, another 61, a third 64, and a
juvenile 14 times. These prisoners are taught trades
which may be useful to them in after life, and 12
teachers are engaged in giving them general in-
struction. The chaplain adds, that the library being
well supplied with books and periodicals, religious
and secular, it " affords a vast amount of interest-
ing and important information to the prisoners."
He states that of the 251 male prisoners discharged
from that prison in 1860, 105 are " entered in his
register as expected to do well ;" but of the. 196
liberated females the matron only informs him that
she considers 27 " hopeful as to their future career,"
and that 31 got work, and 10 were sent to houses of
refuge. A return obtained concerning 542 boys
liberated in the period 1848-59, shows that some
time after their discharge (certainly more than a
year afterwards), 207 were in .employment, 262
were not ; 200 had returned to crime, 54 bore bad
characters, 164 good, 49 tolerable. The system of
discipline in the prisons of Scotland is that of sepa-
ration, but without solitude; indeed, the prisoners
are to receive at least 10 visits daily from chaplains,
teachers, and others, whose communications are ex-
pected to improve them. As part of a punitive
system, a mattress is not allowed during the first
month of imprisonment, but the prisoner sleeps on
a " guard bed," that is, a board and a wooden pil-
low, supplied with a covering sufficient for warmth.
The inspector of prisons has intimated his opinion
that the use of the guard bed ought to be limited
to prisoners sentenced for not more than 3 months ;
but the majority of the governors of gaols are
against the proposed relaxation, and say that this
) is an effective ingredient in punishment, and does
not injure the health.

GUNPOWDER EXPLOSION.--A violent explosion
of gunpowder took place in a fuse manufactory at Pool, near
Camborne, in Cornwall, on Wednesday. Three lives were
lost, and several persons injured.
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