CONTENTS.

Pago Royal Commissions. GENERAL REPORT. General Conclusions... ... ... ... • ■ - 3 DETAILED REPORT (4-18). Documents consulted ... ... ... -■• 4 Principal features of Penal System 5 Gaols and Witnesses examined ... ... ... 5 Reports, &c, received 6 General subjects of Inquiry 7 j. The Law op the Colony Re3pectino Pbisons, 7-11 Rules as to Remissions ... ... ... ••• 11 Review of existing Laws ... ... ... ... 11 Visiting Justices 12 Rules made under Acts ... ... ... ... 13 How far enforced ... ... ... ... ... 14 Difference as to Rations, &c. ... ... • • • 14 Summary as to Laws and Rules ... ... ... 14 Opinion of Commissioners ... ... ... ... 14 II. —Existing- Pbisons, Sufficiency, &c. :— Position, Accommodation, Construction 15 Security, Separation, Labour, Working in Streets 15 Moral effects of present System 15 Rations, Indulgences, Religious Services, Secular Instruction 16 Remissions and Pardons; proper principleforfuture 16 Extraordinary Remissions; Result of particular Remissions ... ... ... ... ••■ 16 Opinion as to Prerogative. Annual Returns ... 16 lll.—Adaptation oe Existing Peisons 17 None fit for Penal Establishments 17 Proper uses ... ■• -■■ ••■ ■•• ••• 1' Separation ... ... ■■■ ■•■ ... 17 Provisions for Short-sentenced Convicts 17 Uniformity of Control and System ... 17 IV. Institution and Chaeaotee op Geneeal Penal Establishment ... ... ... ••■ ••• 17 Necessity for Establishment 17 General Principles for same ... ... -•■ 17 V.—Locality of Geneeal Establishment 18 Places spoken of 18 Two most important ... ... ■■■ ■•■ 1° MEMORANDUM AGREED UPON BY COMMISSIONERS AS BASIS OF INQUIRY (19-23). Objects of Commission ... ... ... ■•• 1"

Page Introduction 19 Objects of Punishment generally 19 The Principal Requisites of Punishment —Formidable, Humane, Corrective, and Reformatory (especially for juvenile offenders), Economical... 20 Uniform ... ... ... •■• ■•• ■ •• 21 Discretion of Judges, and principle on which used 21 Alterations of Sentences by Executive 21 Details to be attended to 21 Resume from Digest by Secretary of State, 1867 21-23 Essentials pointed out therein 23 Separation, Hard Labour ... ... ... ••• 23 Uniformity of Discipline. Abolishing intermediate Sentences ... ... ... ••• ••• 23 Punishment for First Offences 23 Conclusion of Memorandum ... ... ... 23 LIST OF PRACTICAL DETAILS INQUIRED INTO (23). 1. As to existing Gaols ... ... ... ... 23 2. As to Improvement of old Prisons 23 3. As to a General Penal Establishment 23 APPENDIX (26). List of Witnesses, Reports, Returns, and Plans of Prisons sent in along with the Reports of the Commissioners ... ... •■• •■• ••• 26 Appendix A.—Expenses of principal Prisons and Estimate of Value of Prison Labour 29 Appendix B.—Number of Prisoners in each Prison, and proportion of Officers to Prisoners ... ... 29 Appendix C. —Return of Remissions and Pardons granted otherwise than in the ordinary course (1858 to 1868) 30-37 Appendix D.—Supplementary Return of Prisoners pardoned or Sentences remitted (early part of 1862) 38-39 Appendix E. —Report by Dr. Hector on a Site for a Penal Establishment ... 40-42 Appendix F.—Evidence of J. M. Balfour, Esq., as to best Site for Penal Establishment 42 LETTERS. Letter acknowledging receipt of Reports and conveying the thanks of the Government to the Royal Commission ... ... ■■■ •■• ■■■ •■• 42 Lettee from the Hon. E. W. Stafford, enclosing letter from His Honor the Superintendent of Otago relative to an error in the Report of the Royal Commission on Prisons ... ... ... •■ 43 Lettee from Mr. Justice Johnston in reply to above ... 44