Prison rules (convict prisons) : draft of rules proposed to be made under the Prison Act, 1898.
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- 1899
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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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![order and ready for use. He shall take care that instructions are given as to the steps to be taken in case of fire, and that the officers concerned are acquainted with their duties on such occasions. 142. —(1.) The governor shall hear repoiTs every day at such liour as may be most convenient. (2.) The governor shall take care that every prisoner having a complaint to make or request to prefer to him shall have ample facilities for doing so, and he shall redress any grievance, or take such steps as may seem necessary, recording the same in the prescribed manner. (3.) The governor shall forwai'd to the directors without delay any report or complaint which any officer of the prison desires to make to them, and shall on no account suppress it, but he may offer any ex])lanation with it which it may seem to require. (4.) The governor shall forward to the directors any report or complaint against an officer, with which he is not competent or willing to deal; but, in every such case, the officer shall be ])ermitted to see the charge against him, and to reply to it, for the information of the director. (5.) The governor shall inform the Board of Visitors of the desire of any prisoner to see them. He will afford any member of the Board of Visitors visiting the prison full information on all matters connected with the prison, and will give him free access to all ])arts of the piison and to all prisoners. He will acquaint the visitor that any prisoner whom he may wish to see, in addition to those who have applied to see him, will be brought before him, and that he may, if he prefers it, see such prisoners in their cells or in a room out of sight and hearing of prison officers. (G.) The governor will lay before the Board of Visitors, or any one of them visiting the prison, any books of the prison that they may wish to see. (7.) The governor shall inform a director of the desire of any prisoner to see him. 143. —(1.) The governor shall see that every prisoner under punishment is visited during the day at intervals of not more than three hours by the ajjpointed officer. (2.) The governor shall take care that no prisoner is subjected to any punishment which the medical officer is not satisfied he is capable of undergoing. (3.) ihe governor shall attend every corporal punishment inflicted within the prison; and he shall enter in his journal the hour at which the punishment was inflicted, the 'number of l^hes or strokes given, and any order which he or the medical officer has given on the occasion. ( 1.) The governor may, after the infliction of two-thirds of any sentence of corporal punishment, remit the remainder or any portion thereof. Duties as to reports, com- plaints, or applications. Duties in relation to Board of Visitors. Duties as to prisoners under punishment.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22333770_0031.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
