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Separate

confinement

and punish-

by Governor.

c. 126, s. 18.

No. 4 of 1899.

PRISONS.

(2) in every prison punishment cells shall be provided or appropriated for the confinement of prisoners for prison offences;

(3) in a prison containing female as well as male prisoners, the women shall be imprisoned in separate buildings or separate parts of the same buildings, in such manner as to prevent their seeing, conversing, or holding any intercourse with the male prisoners;

(4) in a prison where debtors are confined, means shall be provided for separating them altogether from the criminal prisoners;

(5) in a prison where criminal prisoners are confined, such prisoners shall, as far as possible, be prevented from holdings any communication with each other, either by every prisoner being kept in a separate cell by day and by night, except when he is at chapel or taking exercise, or by every prisoner being confined by night to his cell and being subjected to such superintendence during the day as will, consistently with the provisions of this Ordinance, prevent his com- municating with any other prisoner; and,

(6) in a prison where prisoners under the age of sixteen years are confined, they shall be kept separate from prisoners of or above that age.

8.(1) No cell shall be used for the separate confinement of a prisoner unless it has been approved in writing by the ment cells to Governor for 'the purpose, and the Governor shall not give be approved his approval in respect of any cell unless he is satisfied that 28 & 29 Vict. it is of such a size, and is lighted, ventilated, and fitted up in such a manner as may be requisite for health, and furnished with the means of enabling the prisoner to com- municate at any time with an officer of the prison; but a distinction may be made in respect of the use of cells for the separate confinement of prisoners during long and short periods of imprisonment, and in respect of the use of cells in which the prisoner is intended to be employed during the whole day or a long or short part thereof; and the Governor's approval may be varied accordingly, so as to express the period of imprisoninent for which each cell may be considered fit, and the number of hours in the day during which the prisoners may be employed therein.