4. Insulting or threatening language to any
officer or prisoner, or
5. A third or subsequent refusal to labour,
or
6. Wilfully or wantonly breaking the prison windows or destroying the prison property, or
7. When under punishment, wilfully making a disturbance tending to interrupt the order and discipline of the prison, the Superintendent shall have power to sentence such prisoner to corporal punishment which shall not exceed twelve strokes with a rattan or birch, if the offender is an adult, or six strokes with a birch, if the offender is a juvenile.
281. (A) If any criminal prisoner is guilty of any offence against prison discipline as defined by rule 277, or (B) If any male prisoner is guilty of any offence specified in rule 280 or of any other act of gross misconduct or insubordination requiring to be suppressed by extraordinary means, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, if he deems that the powers of punishment vested in him are insufficient, in conjunction with a Visiting Justice, after taking evidence upon oath, affirmation or declaration, to punish the offender in the case of (A) by close confinement in a partially darkened or light cell, on bread or rice and water, for a period not exceeding fourteen days, or by separate confinement, upon full diet and the authorized scale of penal diet in alternate weeks, for a period not exceeding six months, and in the case of (B) by corporal punishment not exceeding twenty strokes with a rattan or birch, if the offender is an adult, nor twelve strokes with a birch, if the offender is a juvenile.
282. Corporal punishment shall be inflicted on the breech, with a rattan or birch, as the case may be, of a pattern approved of by the Governor.
283. No dietary punishment shall be inflicted on any prisoner, nor shall he be placed in a punishment-cell, nor shall corporal punishment be inflicted on him, unless the Surgeon shall certify in writing that such prisoner is in a fit condition of health to undergo such punishment.
284. No prisoner who shall be sentenced to solitary confinement by any Court shall be kept in such confinement more than seven days without an interval of one day out.
285. In the case of any prisoner sentenced to a term of imprisonment exceeding six months, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, subject to the approval of the Governor, to order his queue to be cut off for repeated offences against prison discipline provided that no queue shall be cut off within the three months next preceding the date of the expiration of his sentence.
EMPLOYMENT OF PRISONERS.
CLASSES OF LABOUR.
286. No. 1.--Hard Labour.
(1) Shot drill and stone carrying in alternate spells of half an hour each, weight of shot 24 lbs., weight of stone 45 lbs.
(2) Crank labour 12,500 revolutions daily, (12 lbs. test).
(3) Treadwheel.
No. 2.--Hard Labour.
(1) Employment on public works outside the prison.
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4. Insulting or threatening language to any
officer or prisoner, or
5. A third or subsequent refusal to labour,
or
6. Wilfully or wantonly breaking the pri
son windows or destroying the prison property, or
7. When under punishment, wilfully making a disturbance tending to interrupt the order and discipline of the prison, the Superintendent shall have power to sentence such prisoner to corporal punishment which shall not exceed twelve strokes with a rattan or birch, if the offender is an adult, or six strokes with a birch, if the offender is a juvenile.
281. (A) If any criminal prisoner is guilty of any offence against prison discipline as defined by rule 277, or (B) If any male prisoner is guilty of any offence specified in rule 280 or of any other act of gross nusconduct or insubordination requiring to be suppressed by extraordinary means, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, if he deems that the powers of punishment vested in him are insufficient, in conjunction with a Visit- ing Justice, after taking evidence upon oath, affirmation or declaration, to punish the offender in the case of (4) by close confinement in a partially darkened or light cell, on bread or rice and water, for a period not exceeding fourteen days, or by separate confinement, upon full diet and the authorized scale of penal diet in alternate weeks, for a period not exceeding six months, and in the case of (B) by corporal punishment not exceeding twenty strokes with a rattan or birch, if the offender is an adult, nor twelve strokes with a birch, if the offender is a juvenile. 282. Corporal punishment shall be inflicted on the breech, with a rattan or birch, as the case may be, of a pattern approved of by the Governor. 283. No dietary punishment shall be inflicted on any prisoner, nor shall he be placed in a punishment-cell, nor shall corporal punishment be inflicted on him, unless the Surgeon shall certify in writing that such prisoner is in a fit condition of health to undergo such punishment. 284. No prisoner who shall be sentenced to solitary confinement by any Court shall be kept in such confinement more than seven days with- out an interval of one day out.
285. In the case of any prisoner sentenced to a term of imprisonment exceeding six months, it shall be lawful for the Superintendent, subject to the approval of the Governor, to order his queue to be cut off for repeated offences against prison discipline provided that no quene shall be cut off within the three months next preceding the date of the expiration of his sentence.
EMPLOYMENT OF PRISONERS.
CLASSES OF LABOUR.
286. No. 1.--Hard Labour.
(1) Shot drill and stone carrying in al- ternate spells of half an hour each, weight of shot 24 lbs., weight of stone 45 lbs.
(2) Crank labour 12,500 revolutions
daily, (12 lbs. test).
(3) Treadwheel.
No. 2,--Hard Labour.
(1) Employment on public works out-
side the prison.
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