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[Subsidiary]
Duty to supply information.
Duty to hear complaints.
L.N. 65/69.
Duty to report injuries caused by discipline or treatment.
Duty as to prisoners' diets.
Power to inspect books.
Duty to advise on employment and occupation.
Power to organize lectures and addresses.
Duty to inquire and report on state of prison buildings.
Duty to discharge other duties assigned by the Governor.
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Prison Rules
[1986 Ed.
227. Visiting justices shall furnish such information with respect to the offences reported to them as may be required by the Governor from time to time.
228. (1) Visiting justices shall hear and investigate any complaint which any prisoner may desire to make to them.
(2) They shall pay special attention to prisoners in-hospital and separate confinement.
229. Visiting justices shall attend to all reports received by them as to the mind or body of any prisoner being likely to be injured by discipline or treatment to which he is subjected, and shall communicate their opinion to the Governor.
230. Visiting justices shall inspect the diets of the prisoners, and if they consider that the food supplied does not conform to the approved diet scale under which it is supplied, they shall report the circumstances to the Commissioner, and make a note of such circumstances in a book provided for the purpose, and the Superintendent shall thereupon take such steps as may be immediately necessary to provide the prisoners with suitable food.
231. Visiting justices may inspect any of the books of the prison or hostel.
232. Visiting justices shall assist the Commissioner with advice and suggestions as to the industrial employment and occupation of prisoners with particular relation to their employment on discharge.
233. Visiting justices may, subject to the approval of the Commissioner, organize lectures and addresses in the prison provided they do not interfere with the necessities of prison discipline, and are directed to the moral improvement of the prisoners.
234. Visiting justices shall inquire into the state of the buildings, and report to the Governor with respect to any repairs or additions which may appear to them to be necessary.
235. Visiting justices shall also discharge such other duties as may be assigned to them by the Governor.
Appointment of prison visitors. L.N. 242/83.
(2) PRISON VISITORS
236. (1) The Commissioner may, from time to time, appoint any person interested in the welfare, reform and after-care of prisoners to be a prison visitor.
(2) A prison visitor shall conform to these rules and be subject to the orders of the Superintendent.
(3) Access to any prisoner by a prison visitor shall be arranged at the discretion of the Superintendent.
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