[Rev. 2012]
Prisons
CAP. 90
(b)
the duties and responsibilities of prison officers, including the duties
and responsibilities of particular classes of such officers;
(c) the disciplinary control of prison officers;
(d) the duties and powers of visiting justices;
(e) the duties of medical officers; the medical inspection of prisons and
prisoners; and the prevention of contagious diseases in prisons;
(f) the safe custody, management, organization, hours, mode and kind of
labour and employment, clothing, maintenance, instruction, discipline,
treatment, restraint, correction and discharge of prisoners and the
manner in which prison offences shall be tried;
(g) the provision of a suitable diet and dietary scales, including
punishment diet for prisoners and prescribing the conditions under
which such diet and scale may be varied;
(h) the construction, description, equipment and supervision of cells and
wards;
(i) the payment of prisoners for work done while in prison;
(j) the establishment of a prisons rewards and fines fund and the method
of administration of such fund by the Commissioner;
(k) the establishment of prisoners’ aid associations and societies in
connection with discharged prisoners and the appointment of officers
responsible for the aftercare of prisoners;
(l) the medical examination, measuring, photographing and taking of
fingerprint impressions, footprints and casts thereof, palm prints
or other records of prisoners, detained in any prison or otherwise
detained in custody, including detailed personal statistics and
histories, and for requiring full and truthful answers to all questions
put to such persons with the object of obtaining such statistics and
histories; and the person, if any, to whom such measurements,
photographs, fingerprint impressions, footprints and casts thereof,
palm prints or other records are to be sent or supplied;
(m) the disposal of products of prison labour;
(n) the disposal of prisoners’ property left unclaimed for a prescribed
period, including its sale and the disposal of the proceeds of such sale;
(o) the manner in which the remission of sentences, including any period
of public work under Part XII of this Act, shall be calculated;
(p) the manner in which petitions by prisoners to the President shall be
presented;
(q) suitable diet and dietary scales or ration allowances for persons
employed on public work under Part XII of this Act;
(r) anything which by this Act may or is required to be prescribed, and
generally for the good management and government of prisons and
the prisoners therein whether in, about or beyond the limits of such
prisons.
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