Hours of locking and unlocking prison. Visitors not to be in the prison at night. Charge of letters and other articles. Examination PRISONS ORDINANCE, 1876. SCHEDULE I. REGULATIONs for GovernMENT OF PRISONS. Gate Rules. 1. The outer gates of the Prison shall be locked and the keys delivered to the gaoler at 6 o'clock each night, and he shall then see that the officers resident in the prison are all present. No ingress or egress shall be allowed into or out of the prison between the hours of six at night and six in the morning, except to the Medical Officer, the chaplain, and persons furnished with an order in writing under the hand of one of the visiting committee. 2. No person other than the officers of the prison, the Medical Officer, the chaplain and the prisoners shall be in the prison between the hours of six at night and six in the morning without the permission in writing of one of the visiting committee. 3. The officer acting as gate porter shall take charge of all letters, parcels, or articles sent in for any prisoner, and deliver them to the gaoler. 4. He shall examine all articles carried into or out of the prison, of articles at and shall stop any person bringing spirits or other prohibited articles into the prison, or carrying out any property belonging to the prison, and shall give immediate notice thereof to the gaoler. gate. Admission of visitors. Search of prisoners on admission. Effects retained by gaoler. Register of particulars relating to prisoners. 5. He shall carefully examine the orders for the admission of prisoners' friends, and if there is ground to suspect or believe that the person presenting the order has obtained it under false pretences, such person shall not be admitted to the prison until a report is made to the gaoler and his directions received thereon. In all such cases the gaoler shall be immediately applied to. Admission and Discharge of Prisoners. 6. Prisoners on admission shall be searched by persons of their own sex, apart from all other prisoners: all money, effects and articles whatsoever, except necessary clothing, shall be taken from criminal prisoners, but nothing shall be taken from debtors except knives, weapons, articles calculated to facilitate escape, and prohibited articles. 7. All money, effects, or articles taken from prisoners or sent to the prison for their use, and not allowed to be received and retained by them, shall be taken charge of by the keeper of the prison, who shall make an inventory of them to be entered in a book called "the Prisoners' Property Book." 8. The name, age, height, weight, features, particular marks, and general appearance of each prisoner shall be noted in a prisoners' register to be kept by the gaoler. 9. The prisoner shall, as soon as possible, be examined by the SCHEDULE I. Medical Officer, who shall enter in the Prisoners' Register to be Examination kept by the gaoler, a record of the state of health of the prisoner, by surgeon. whether it is requisite that the prisoner should be vaccinated, and any observations he may deem it expedient to make. 10. The prisoner shall be cleansed in a bath, and, if a male and Cleansing sentenced to penal servitude or hard labour for six months or prisoners. upwards, have his hair closely cropped or shaved. Female prisoners shall have their hair cut only as may be necessary for health or cleanliness. 11. No prisoner shall be discharged (unless upon his own requi- Prisoners not sition) whilst labouring under any acute distemper, or if the to be discharged Medical Officer shall certify that discharge will be dangerous to the during sickprisoner. Distribution of Prisoners. ness. 12. Male and female prisoners shall be confined in separate parts Separation of of the prison, so as to prevent them seeing or holding any communication with each other. male and female prisoners. 13. The prisoners of each sex shall, as far as the prison accom- Classification. modation renders it practicable, be divided into distinct classes ; that is to say, i. Prisoners before trial shall be kept apart from convicted prisoners. ii. Juveniles under fourteen years of age, from adults. iii. Felons, from misdemeanants. iv. Debtors, from criminal prisoners. 14. Prisoners shall be confined in separate rooms at night, so Separation at far as the accommodation will allow. Prisoners for whom separate night. rooms or cells cannot be provided shall be associated in rooms, with not less than three prisoners in each room or cell. 15. No prisoner shall enter any cell except his own, unless by Prisoners not order of the gaoler. to enter another's cell. 16. Persons imprisoned in respect of refusal to enter into re- Witnesses cognizances to give evidence shall be kept separate from other refusing to prisoners. enter into recognizance Food and Clothing. 17. No spirituous liquor shall be admitted for the use of any Spirituous prisoner without a written order from the Medical Officer. liquors. 18. No smoking shall be allowed, or tobacco in any form intro- Tobacco. duced, except under any rule to be made by the Governor in Council, or under a written order of the Medical Officer. 19. Any order by the Medical Officer for the admission of Order of spirituous liquors or tobacco, shall be in writing, specifying the medical officer quantity to be admitted and the name of the prisoner for whose to be entered use it is intended, and shall be entered by him in his journal. 20. A debtor may procure or receive at proper hours moderate Debtor may quantities of food, wine, malt liquor, clothing, bedding, or other maintain himself. SCHEDULE I. necessaries but subject to examination, and to such rules as may be made by the Governor in Council. Untried prisoners. Prison rations. Provisions shall not be sold or transferred. Diet of sick prisoners. Dress of prisoners not convicted. Dress of convicted criminal. Return of clothing to discharged prisoners. Bedding. Washing. 21. A criminal prisoner before trial may provide himself with food and other necessaries in the same way as a debtor. If he does not desire to do so, he shall receive the regular prison allowance of food allotted to criminal prisoners before trial. *22. Every prisoner maintained at the expense of the Colony shall be allowed a sufficient quantity of plain and wholesome food, regard being had to the nature of the labour required from or to be performed by them, to be regulated by the Governor in Council. 23. No prisoner shall give, barter, or sell any portion of his food, or any liquor or tobacco, which he may be allowed to receive, to any other prisoner. If a debtor or an untried prisoner transgresses this rule he shall forfeit the privilege of supplying himself with food, for such period as the Sheriff may direct, and any money belonging to him in the gaoler's hands may be applied in defraying the cost of the prison allowance which he shall then receive. 24. Sick prisoners shall be allowed such diet, including if necessary any spirituous liquor or tobacco, as the Medical Officer may direct. 25. Debtors and criminal prisoners before trial may wear their own clothes unless the same shall be insufficient, or be required for purposes of justice. The prison dress for prisoners before trial shall be distinguished by colour or other conspicuous difference from that of convicted prisoners. 26. Every convicted criminal prisoner shall be provided with a complete prison dress, and shall be required to wear it at all times during the day. 27. On the discharge of a prisoner his own clothes shall be returned to him unless it has been found necessary to destroy them, in which case he shall be provided with necessary clothing. 28. Every prisoner shall be provided with a mat and country cloth for bedding. 29. Prisoners shall wash and cleanse their clothing, and sleeping mats and cloths as often as the Medical Officer directs. Cleansing prison. Exercise of prisoners. Health. 30. The prison and every room and part thereof, and the furniture therein shall be kept clean, and shall as often as necessary be washed or white-washed with lime, and the prisoners shall conform to all rules prescribed to them for this purpose. 31. All prisoners not employed in the open air shall have the means of taking such exercise in the open air as the Medical Officer shall deem necessary for their health. * Regulations as to prisoners' diet, passed on 24th March, 1887. Infirmary. *32. An infirmary or proper room or place for the reception of SCHEDULE I. sick prisoners shall be set apart in the prison. A register of all the prisoners admitted to the infirmary shall be kept by the keeper of the prison; and no prisoner shall remain in the infirmary unless his name is in such register as having been admitted thereto. 33. Prisoners shall be required to keep themselves clean and Personal decent in their persons, and to conform to such rules as may be laid down for this purpose. Every prisoner not exempted by the Medical Officer shall bathe every morning. cleanliness of prisoners. 34. If a prisoner complain of illness to any prison officer he shall Complaints of report the complaint without unnecessary delay to the gaoler, and illness to be no prisoner so complaining is to be compelled to labour until he reported. has been examined and directions have been given. 34A. The Medical Officer shall have general supervision, and Medical officer to supervise shall inspect from time to time the sanitary conditions of the in sanitary prison, the clothing, bedding, and food of the prisoners; and shall matters, and give all necessary directions in writing with reference to the same. give Labour and Occupation. directions. labour. +35. Hard labour shall be of two classes: the first class consist- Classification ing of shot drill, stone breaking, stone carrying, or such other like of hard description of labour as may be appointed by any order of the Governor in Council; the second class, consisting of such other forms of labour as may be appointed by the same authority. hard labour 36. Every male prisoner of sixteen years of age and upwards Prisoners sentenced to hard labour shall, for the first three months if his subject to sentence shall last as long, be kept to hard labour of the first class of the first for such number of hours not more than ten, or less than six class. (exclusive of meals) in each day as may be directed by the Governor in Council; and during the remainder of his sentence shall continue to be kept in like manner at hard labour of the first class, until by industry and good conduct he shall have earned promotion to the second class. 37. Subject to any appointment by the Governor in Council as Shot drill. aforesaid, every prisoner undergoing hard labour of the first class shall during the first three months of his sentence if it is more than three months, or during the first two months thereof if it is not more than three months, or during the first month if the sentence is not more than two months be put to shot drill daily for one hour and a half in the morning, and one hour and a half in the evening, and the working hours intervening between the periods of daily shot drill shall be occupied with ordinary hard labour of the first class. 38. The gaoler shall keep a register, in which he shall enter Register of reports of the conduct of prisoners sentenced to hard labour, and conduct. *As to duty of Prison Infirmary Dispenser, see Regulations of 21st Aug. 1891. † Labour on crank and treadmill, Order of 26th March, 1885. SCHEDULE I. the visiting committee shall have power from time to time to advance from the first to the second class of hard labour, such prisoners as have conducted themselves with propriety and obedience. Promotion of prisoners. Prisoners subject to hard labour 39. Every male prisoner so promoted as aforesaid to the second class, and every female sentenced to hard labour, and every male of the second under sixteen years of age sentenced to hard labour, shall be kept at hard labour of the second class, during such number of hours, not more than ten or less than six (exclusive of meals), in each day as may be appointed by the Governor in Council. class. Hard labour of second class in 40. Prisoners sentenced to hard labour for periods not exceeding one month, or for any period in default of payment of a penalty, certain other may be kept at hard labour of the second class during the whole period of their sentences. cases. Modification of labour in individual cases by medical officer. Days of exemption from hard labour. Prisoners not under sentence of hard labour. Detail of 41. When any prisoner is sentenced to hard labour the Medical Officer shall give a certificate as to his fitness to undergo the same, and shall, from time to time, examine the prisoners sentenced to hard labour, and shall make an entry in his journal of the physical capabilities of every such prisoner. No prisoner shall be put to, or be kept in any kind of hard labour, at which the Medical Officer shall have certified him unfit to be employed until he shall certify that he is fit for such employment. 42. No prisoner shall be employed at hard labour on Sunday, Christmas Day, Good Friday, and days appointed for public fasts or thanksgivings. *43. Provision shall be made by the Governor by Order in Council for the employment of prisoners not ordered to be kept to hard labour. 44. Subject to these rules, the hours and distribution of the labour of prisoners within and without the precincts of the prison, appointed by and for food and rest, shall be appointed from time to time by the labour, &c., Governor in Council. Performance of Divine Service. Attendance at Divine Service. Governor in Council. Instruction. 45. The colonial chaplain, or such other person as may be appointed by him, with the approval of the Governor, shall perform the appointed service of the Church of England every Sunday, and on Christmas Day and Good Friday; and religious and moral instruction shall be given to prisoners who are willing to receive it. 46. The gaoler, matron, and subordinate officers, not necessarily occupied in the performance of any duty, and all the prisoners, shall attend divine service on Sundays and other days when it is performed, unless prevented by sickness or some other reasonable cause, or unless permitted by the visiting committee to be absent, which cause or dispensation shall be stated in the gaoler's journal. Instruction of 47. The Governor may authorise the employment of fit and prisoners. proper persons for affording prisoners religious or secular instruction under the superintendence of the chaplain. Order made 26th October, 1883. |