Prison rules (local prisons) : draft of rules proposed to be made under the Prison Act, 1898.
- Home Office
- Date:
- 1899
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Prison rules (local 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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![]7. Any nrisoner for whose production at any place an order is issued shall, while outside the prison, he kept in the custody of the officers directed to convey him to that place. 18. Any o'ratuity g-ranted to a prisoner on his discharge may be paid through a Prisoners’ Aid Society, or in such nianiier and under such conditions as the Conimissioners may order for the purpose of preventing its being misapplied. 19. The child of a female prisoner may be received into prison with its mother, provided it is at the breast. In all such cases an authority from the committing magistrate for the child s adims- sion should accompany the prisoner on reception. Any child so admitted shall not be taken from its mother until the medical officer of the prison certifies that it is in a fit condition to be removed. When the child has attained the age of nine months the medical officer shall report whether it is desirable or neces- sary that it should be any longer retained, but_ except under special circumstances the child shall not be kept in prison after it has arrived at the age of twelve months, -^uy child so letained may be supplied with clothing at the public expense. Before the discharge of any such cliild the governor shall ascertain from the relations whether they are willing and in a position to receive it; in the event of their being unable to do so, he shall cause it to be sent to the workhouse of the union in which the mother was apprehended, having previously communicated thereon with the workhouse authorities. Food, Clothing, and Bedding. 20. No spirituous liquors of any kind shall be admitted for the use of any prisoner under any pretence whatever, except in pursuance of special rules or of a written order of the medical officer specifying the quantit^^ to be admitted, and the name of the prisoner for whose use it is intended. This rule shall not apply to any stock of spirituous liquors kept in the prison for the use of the infiimary and under the control of the medical officer. 21. Smoking shall not be allowed in, nor tobacco be intro- duced into, a prison except by the authority of the Commis- sioners, or unless specially required for medical reasons, and then only under the Avritten authority of the medical officer, a co])y of which he shall enter in his journal. 22. Each prisoner shall be supplied with a sufficient quantity of wholsesome food, according to a scale or scales of diet, in fram- ing which regard shall be had to the sex and employment of the prisoner, and other circumstances which require consideration. 23. A prisoner who has any complaint to make regarding the diet furnished to him, or who wishes his diet to be weighed or measured for the purpose of ascertaining whether he is supplied with the proper quantity, must make his request as soon as possible after the diet is handed to him, and it will be weighed or measured in his presence, and in that of the officer deputed Custody of prisoner out side prison. Application of gratuity on discharge. Children of female prisoners. Spirituous liquors. Smoking of tobacco. Food. Complaints as to diet.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22333782_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
