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Rh make tents, carpets, bricks, and other things, and they work in large gardens, thus supplying the jails with vegetables and lessening the expenses of these places. In fact, I am sure that nowhere in India are jails conducted on better principles than in Hyderabad State, and when we consider how illiterate the prisoners are, and the classes from which they come, we cannot fail to see that the results now arrived at are excellent.

During 1320-1321 Fasli (1910-1912 A.D.) forty-three men were sentenced to life-long imprisonment and six were beheaded.

Capital punishment is not inflicted on women. And in civil cases women of the higher classes do not appear in court, but are represented there by a pleader. In the Gulbarga Jail I saw six women who had committed terrible murders, and were suffering life-long imprisonment. The conditions of these female convicts could no doubt have been made better; but how can an Elizabeth Fry be found in a country where the ladies are strictly purdah? Only one hundred years ago all the female prisoners in Newgate (London) — 300 women and children — were crowded into two wards and two cells, containing a superficial area of about 190 yards,