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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE
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C.O. 885
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PUBLIC RECORD OFFICE, LONDON
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for the proper management of the prison, and for the conduct and treatment of the prison officers and prisoners. He is expected' to enforce due economy in connexion with the prison, signing all demands for stores, and to insist upon cleanliness and order in the building and among its inmates.
11. In his absence his duties and authority shall devolve upon the chief warder.
12. He shall not permit any persons other than the prisoners and officers of the prison to sleep within the prison walls, nor shall he permit any person other than a prison officer to communicate with a prisoner, except so far as is permitted by these rules. All communications with the prisoners, in person or writing, which are permitted by the rules shall be subject to his supervision, and he shall have power to remove from the prison any visitors who misconduct themselves. (See also Rule 103.)
13. He shall visit and inspect daily every part of the prison and see every prisoner once at least in every 24 hours. He shall at frequent intervals, daily, if possible, inspect prisoners employed on public works outside the gaol, noting the visits in his journal. Once at least in each week he shall go through the prison at an uncertain hour of the night, recording the fact in his journal. When visiting or inspecting the female prison, he shall be accompanied by the matron or by a female warder.
14. He shall hand to the medical officer daily a list of prisoners who are ill, or who complain of illness or who appear to him to require attention in mind or body, or who are in solitary confinement; and he shall carry into effect whatever Cases of sudden written instructions may be given to him by the medical officer. illness should be reported to the medical officer without delay.
15. He shall attend and require attendance at Divine service, and shall facilitate in all reasonable
together with the religious as the visits to the prison of ministers of religion
secular instruction of the prisoners. He shall be held responsible for all books or printed papers which are brought into the prison. 16. He shall frequently test the quantity and quality of the rations supplied to the prisoners, and shall allow the prisoners, if they wish to do so, to see their rations weighed for themselves, scales and legal weights and measures being provided for the purpose. He shall investigate the complaints of the prisoners and hear their applications on any point, as soon as practicable, and shall take care that any prisoner wishing to appeal to an authorised visitor shall have an opportunity of doing so.
Should however repeated complaints of a groundless nature be made under this rule, the matter shall be treated as a breach of prison discipline, and the offender will be liable to punishment accordingly.
17. He shall cause an abstract of such of the rules as relate to the treatment and conduct of the prisoners to be posted in a conspicuous part of the prison, together with a copy of the prison dietaries, and a notice explaining the effect of each prisoner's conduct and industry upon his present or future prospects. He shall cause such abstract and notice to be read once in every month to all convicted prisoners.
18. He shall be responsible for the due discharge of all prisoners immediately upon their becoming entitled to release, whether by the expiration of their term of sentence, or by pardon or commutation, or by remissions of sentence earned under the mark regulations. Once a week he shall check and initial the mark books.
19. He shall be responsible that the name of every prisoner under a life sentence or sentence exceeding fifteen years, who has served fifteen years of his sentence or, having served ten years of his sentence, has attained, or is believed in the absence of positive evidence to have attained, the age of 60, shall be submitted He shall communicate this rule to every for the consideration of the Governor.
such prisoner now in the prison, and to any other on first admission into the prison; but such prisoners must be given distinctly to understand that the submission of their names to the Governor in no way implies that any remission of sentence will necessarily be granted.
20. When any prisoner's life is in danger, he shall give notice to a minister of the religious denomination to which such prisoner belongs. In case of death he shall at once notify the same to the coroner; and if the death is from natural causes he shall deliver up the body of the deceased to the relatives for the purpose
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of burial, provided that they desire to have it and that there is no sanitary objection to such a course.
21. He is empowered, subject to right of appeal to the Governor, to fine the subordinate officers, in case of misconduct, in accordance with the scale fixed in the annexed schedule, and in case of gross misconduct he may suspend from duty any subordinate officer and exclude him from the prison pending a report, which should be made without delay, to the Colonial Secretary.
22. He shall visit the district prisons twice a year, obtaining permission for absence from the Colonial Secretary before going, and reporting his return together with any incidents in his visits requiring immediate attention.
23. He shall keep the following books:-
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(a.) A nominal record of all prisoners committed, in which shall be entered the fullest particulars of every prisoner committed, together with the date of commitment and of expiration of sentence.
The
(b.) A journal, the entries in which shall be made day by day, giving the daily occurrences, the number of prisoners in custody, &c. extracts from this journal shall be furnished to the Colonial Secretary as daily returns.
(c.) A prison store book, the entries in which shall be made day by day.
(d.) A ration book, the entries in which shall be made day by day, showing
the daily rations allowed to each prisoner.
(e.) A general mark account, and a punishment book.
(f.) An official visitors' book.
(g) A book for ordinary visitors to the prison or the prisoners.
(h) An inventory book of the prisoners' property.
(j.) An officer's report. book.
(k.) A cash book.
He shall make the following annual reports to the Colonial Secretary :- (a.) An annual report on the prison.
(b) An annual report on the district prisons, both these reports being
accompanied by the returns required for the Blue Book.
(c.) A confidential report on the staff and working of the prisons.
CHIEF WARDER.
(See Rules 1-9, 11, 95, and 103.)
25. It shall be the duty of the chief warder to ensure that the instructions
of the keeper of the prison are duly carried out, and in the keeper's absence he shall be his deputy. He will be expected to superintend the details of the prison management, to see that the subordinate officers know and perform their duties, ·
to exercise general supervision over the labour of the prisoners inside the prison, their meals, their clothing, and their exercise; to see that punishments are carried out in accordance with instructions, to make out for the keeper's signature demands for such stores as may be required and generally to supervise the internal economy of the prison.
SUBORDINATE OFFICERS.
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(See Rules 1-9, 21, and 94.)
No subordinate officer shall be absent from the prison during hours of duty without the permission of the keeper; and before leaving the prison at any time he shall deposit his keys in the keeper's office.
27. Officers in charge of working parties shall count the prisoners at frequent intervals and especially on taking over charge or giving over charge, and on leaving any building or work.'
28. Subordinate officers shall not receive visitors in the prison without the permission of the keeper.
29. No subordinate officer shall punish a prisoner except when ordered to
THE MATRON.
do so.
(See Rule 9.) ·
30. The matron shall reside in, and have charge of, the female prison. She shall be subordinate to the keeper of the prison and shall not be absent from her
• See Appendix 4.