Certificate of the Medical Officer that a prisoner is fit for
punish-
ment.
Duties of
Superin-
tendent and
Medical Officer at panish-
ment.
Prohibition
of use of mechanical restrainta.
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Provided that, in the opinion of the Commissioner having regard to the character of the offender and to the state of discipline in the prison, the other forms of punishment allowed by these rules will prove ineffective.
(2) Light canes or rattans shall not be used except of such patterns as may be approved by the Governor.
64. No prisoner shall be subjected to dietary or corporal punishment or to separate confinement unless the Medical Officer has certified in writing that such prisoner is in a Gl condition of health to undergo such punishment.
65. (1) All corporal punishments awarded by the Commis- sioner and inflicted within the prison shall be attended by the Superintendent and Medical Officer.
(2) The Medical Officer shall make such recommendations for preventing injury to the health of a prisoner undergoing such corporal punishment as he may deem necessary and it shall be the duty of the Superintendent to carry them into effect.
(3) At any time during the infliction of such corporal punish- ment the Medical Officer may if he deems it necessary in order to prevent injury to the health of such prisoner, recommend that further punishment shall not be inflicted whereupon the Superin- tendent shall remit the remainder of the punishment,
(4) The Superintendent shall enter in his journal the hour at which such punishment was inflicted, the number of lashes or strokes inflicted, and any orders which he may have given as to remission.
() Restraints,
68. (1) Mechanical restraints shall not be used as a punish- ment or for any purpose except-
(a) to prevent a prisoner from injuring himself or others, or
damaging property, or creating a disturbance;
(b) to ensure the safe custody of prisoners during removal,
when handcuffs may be used;
(c) under the instructions of the Medical Officer.
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(2) When it appears to the Superintendent that it is necessary to place a prisoner under mechanical restraint for any of the reasons specified in sub-paragraph (a) of paragraph (1), the Superintendent may order him to be so placed, and notice thereof shall forthwith be given to one of the visiting justices of the period and to the Medical Officer.
(3) The Medical Officer on receipt of the aforesaid notice shall forthwith inform the Superintendent whether he concurs in the order, and if he does not the Superintendent shall act in accordance with any recommendations which he makes.
(4) No prisoner shall be kept under mechanical restraint longer than is necessary, or for a longer period than twenty-four hours unless upon the written order of one of the visiting justices of the period and the Commissioner. Such order shall specify the cause thereof and the time during which the prisoner is to be so kept, and shall be preserved by the Superintendent as his
warrant.
(3) Particulars of every case of mechanical restraint shall be forthwith entered by the Superintendent in his journal.
(6) No mechanical means of restraint shall be used except of such patterns and in such manner and under such conditions as may be approved by the Governor.
ment.
67. The Superintendent may order any refractory or violent Temporary prisoner to be temporarily confined in a special cell certified for confine- the purpose in the same manner as cells to which rule 3 applies, but no prisoner shall be confined in such a cell as a punishment or after he has ceased to be refractory or violent.
(4)
REMISSION.
68. Every convicted prisoner sentenced to imprisonment, Remission whether by one sentence or cumulative sentences, for a period of sentence. exceeding one month, shall be eligible, by special industry and good conduct, to earn remission in the manner following-
(a) the amount of remission which may be earned shall not exceed one third of a sentence of imprisonment: Pro- vided that the remission so earned shall not reduce the period of imprisonment to less than one month;