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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![Powers of governor as to visitors. I i : Visits by . ofiBcers of police. I I Prisoner’s letters. Communica- tions by prisoner in default of payment of money. Intercourse between prisoners. (b.) ^I’o instnictioiis as to liis busiuoss or family afi'airs of an urg-oiit nature. (^•) lo make arrangements for obtaining employment or assist- ance from friends on release. (o.) Ihe governor may at any time communicate to a prisoner, or to lus friends, any matter of im])ortance to sucli prisoner, in case 111' .should not he entitled to write or receive a letter. (G.) A barrister or solicitor conducting any legal proceedings, civil or criminal, in which a prisoner is a party, or bona fide acting as a legal adviser to the prisoner, in any legal business, will be allowed to see the prisoner with reference to such business, in the sight, but not in the hearing of an officer. (7.) Male prisoners shall be visited in the presence 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. 78.—(1.) The governor may demand the name and address of any visitor to a prisoner; and when he has 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 jn’esence 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 jiarticulars thereof. (2.) If there are reasonable grounds for suspecting that any person who comes to the prison for the purpose of seeing a ])risoner brings in or takes out any articles for an improper pxirpose, or contrary to the prison nxles, or that his conduct may tend to subvert the discipline or good order necessary to be main- tained in the prison, the governor may suspend his visit and remove him from the pi-ison, duly recording the fact in his journal, and reporting it to the Commissioners. 74. An officer of police may visit prisoners for the purpose of identification, on production of an order from the proper police or magisterial authority. 75. Every letter to or from a prisoner shall be read by the governor or deputy governor; and if the contents are objection- able, it shall not be forwarded, or the objectionable part shall be erased according to discretion. 76. Any pei-son committed to piisoii in defaxilt of the pax’^ment of any sum which in pursuance of any conviction or order he is required to pay, shall be allowed to communicate by letter with and to see any of his friends at any reasonable time for the bona fide purpose of providing for the payment which would procure his release from prison. 77. The o-overnor shall, subject to the ])rovisions of these rules, prevent all intercourse or communication between the prisoners, so far as the conduct of the l)u.siness of the prison, or](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22333782_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
