Prison rules (convict prisons) : draft of rules proposed to be made under the Prison Act, 1898.
- Home Office
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Prison rules (convict prisons) : draft of rules proposed to be made under the Prison Act, 1898. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![communicate with liis relatives and respectable friends by letter, and to be visited by them in the prison, and this privilege shall be gradxially increased according to his conduct and industry until the interval shall be reduced to one month. On reception into a convict prison, he shall be allowed to write a letter and receive a reply. 'IN^ot more than three persons shall be admitted to visit a prisoner at one time. No other person shall be allowed to communicate with a prisoner except by special authorit5^ These privileges may be forfeited at any time for idleness or misconduct or breach of the regulations of the prison. (4.) The governor may allow any prisoner who is entitled to a visit to write a letter and receive a reply in lieu of such visit should his friends be unable to visit him; and also to allow any prisoner to write a special letter and to receive a reply under any of the following circumstances: — (a.) The death of a near relative. (b.) To give instructions as to his business or family affairs of an urgent nature. (c.) To make arrangements for obtaining employment or assistance from friends on release. (5.) The governor may at any time communicate to a prisoner or to his friends any matter of importance to such prisoner in case he should not be entitled to write or receive a letter. (6.) A barrister or solicitor conducting any legal proceedings, civil or criminal, in which a convict is a party, or bona fide acting as legal adviser to the convict in any legal business, will be allowed to see the convict with reference to such business in the sight, but not in the hearing, of an officer. (7.) Male ])risoners shall be visited in the jn’esence of a male officer; female prisoners in the presence of a female officer. (8.) No person shall be allowed to visit a prisoner on a Sunday, except in cases of emergency. fi8.—(1.) The governor may demand the name and address of any visitor to a prisoner; and when he has any ground for suspicion may search or cause to be searched male visitors, and may direct a female officer to search female visitors, the search not to be in the presence of any prisoner or of another visitor; and, in case of any visitor refusing to be searched, the governor may deny him or her admission. The governor shall enter in his journal the grounds of any such proceeding, with the particulars thereof. (2.) If there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that any person who^ comes to the prison for the purpose of seeing a prisoner brings in or takes out any articles for an improper purpose, or contrary to the prison rules, or that his conduct may tend to subvert the discipline or good order necessary to be maintained in the prison, the governor may suspend his visit, and remove him from the prison, duly recording the fact iir his journal and reporting it to the directors. 798 p Powers of governor as to visitors.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22333770_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
