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781 [ 18 OF 1885. ] PRISON .


231. Punishment diet shall be supplied to prisoners reported for breaches
of the prison regulations ( at the discretion of the Superintendent ), but no
prisoner shall be kept on punishment diet for more than 3 days at a time.
CLASSIFICATION .
232. Prisoners shall be classified for location, and the classes shall be
kept separate from each other so far as the accommodation of the gaol will
permit, as follows:
( 1. ) Males,
Hard labour prisoners : First conviction.
Ditto With two or more convictions.
Prisoners unable to find security for their good behaviour.
Prisoners confined as suspicious or dangerous characters.
Debtors and first class misdemeanants .
On remand and waiting trial : First conviction.
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On remand and waiting trial : With two or more convictions.
Prisoners sentenced to short terms of imprisonment, not exceeding
fourteen days; First conviction .
Prisoners sentenced to short terms of imprisonment, not exceeding
fourteen days: With two or more convictions,
Boys under sixteen years of age : First conviction .
Boys under sixteen years of age : With two or more convictions.
(2.) Females,
Hard labour prisoners : First conviction .
Ditto . With two or more convictions.
Prisoners unable to find security for their good behaviour.
Prisoners confined as suspicious or dangerons characters.
Debtors and first class misdemeanants.
On remand and waiting trial: First conviction.
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On remand and waiting trial: With two or more convictions.
Prisoners sentenced to short terms of imprisonment, not exceeding
fourteen days : First conviction .
Prisoners sentenced to short terms of imprisonment, not exceeding
fourteen days : With two or more convictions.
Girls under sixteen years of age : First conviction.
Girls under sixteen years of age : With two or more convictions.
All officers of the prison shall endeavour to carry out this rule, bearing
in mind that the object of classification is to prevent the contamination by
depraved prisoners of prisoners not so depraved and to attempt to ensure that
a prisoner shall go out of prison not worse than he came in .
VISITS AND COMMUNICATIONS TO PRISONERS, & c.
233. Convicted prisoners, with the exception of those heretofore mentioned,
after they have served the first three months, may write and receive one
letter every three months ; but the Superintendent may permit any prisoner
to write a special letter, or to see his friends, immediately after conviction, if
for the purpose of making arrangements respecting his property, or otherwise.
231. All letters to and from prisoners shall be read by the Superintendent,
and shall be forwarded or kept back according to the nature of their contents.
Events of importance to prisoners may be communicated to them at any
period by the Superintendent.
235. The privileges of writing and receiving letters may be postponed or
forfeited by misconduct, if so ordered by the Superintendent; but no such
oriler shall be made for a period longer than one month from the time of the
prisoner's last report.