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772 [ 18 of 1885. ] PRISON .


82. All officers, without exception, shall treat the prisoners with kindness
and humanity, shall listen patiently to their complaints, shall inform the
warden when any prisoner desires to see him or the Superintendent, and
shall be firm in maintaining order and discipline, and enforcing an observance
of the rules of the prison .
83. Subordinate officers shall not sit down or lounge about during their
turn of duty ; but shall always be alert and watchful, keeping their faces
towards the prisoners under their charge.
84. Subordinate officers shall examine the prisoners' clothing, and see
that it is at all times in proper repair.
85. Subordinate officers are prohibited, on pain of dismissal, from borrow
ing money from any person connected with a contract for the supply of food
or other articles for the use of the prison.
86. No officer of the prison shall be a bailiff nor be concerned in any
trade or other occupation , but shall give his whole time and attention to the
service of the prison.
87. All such officers shall treat the Visiting Justices, Judges, Members
of the Council, and Magistrates with courtesy and respect.
88. Any subordinate officer desiring to appeal against any decision of the
Superintendent which affects him shall state bis complaint in writing, for the
consideration of the Governor.

89. All officers of the prison shall direct the attention of the Superintend
ent to any prisoner who may appear to bim not to be in health, although he
may not complain, or whose state of mind may appear to him deserving of
special notice and care, in order that the opinion and instructions of the
Surgeon may be taken on the case .
90. Any officer who shall be guilty of assaulting or otherwise molesting
any prisoner, cither within or without the prison premises, unless compelled
to do so in self -defence or for some other lawful purpose, shall be at once
suspended with a view to his dismissal, and even if compelled to strike in
self-defence, no unnecessary violence should be used .
91. No subordinate officer, on any pretence whatever, shall fail to make
an immediate report to the Superintendent, or other his superior officer, of
any misconduct or wilful disobedience of the prison regulations.
92. No subordinate officer shall unnecessarily converse with a prisoner,
nor allow any familiarity on the part of prisoners towards himself, or any
other officer of the prison ; nor shall he on any account speak of his duties,
or of any matters of discipline or prison arrangement, within hearing of the
prisoners.
93. No officer shall without the permission of the Superintendent, bring
in or carry out, or knowingly allow to be brought or carried out, to or for
any prisoner, any money, clothing, provisions, tobacco, letters, papers, or
other articles whatsoever ; or shall give, or cause to be given to any prisoner
such articles ; and any officer who infringes this rule shall be forth with
suspended from his office by the Superintendent, who shall report his case to
the Governor that the offender may be dealt with under sections 11 and 12
of The Prison Ordinance, 1885.
94. If they can be spared subordinate officers may be allowed leave on
Saturday afternoon after the prisoners are locked in their cells, and on Sunday,
Good Friday, Christmas Day, and Government Holidays, and at other times
when they can be spared .