PRISON REGULATIONS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 259, 20 July 1918, Page 8

PRISON REGULATIONS

HARD LABOUR DEFINED RULES REGARDING FIRST-CLASS PRISONERS. New regulations tinder the Prisons Act, published in this week's Giizette, set forth the trades and occupations at which prisoners may be employed, Hard labour prisoners may be required to undertake agricultural work, blacksmithing, briokninking, carpentry, manufacture of concrete blocks, tiles, and other concrete, product-s, concrete-mixing, draining and ditching, excavating, general building work, hammer and drill work, plastering, ploughing, road-making, stone-breaking, fitone-diTsaiiig, tinsniithin-r, wall-building, light labour prisoners may lib given bas-ket-making, bootmaking, bnislimakihg, eabinetmakinj, cleaning and washing, coir-mat making, cooking, gardening, oakum-picking, painting, physical drill, sweeping, tailoring, and any other light labour not included in the hard labour schedule. Other regulations the treatment that is to be given to niisdcmfananls of the first-class and the secondCIUSM. , Misdemeanants of Ihe First Division, who a:e imprisoned for non-compliance will , , tin. , order of any Couvi lo pay a f.im nt money, or imprisoned iii respect or a distress to satisfy A sum of money ordered to bo paid by a Court of Justice, shall be required lo keep their cells and utensils clean and in good order, and shall receive the scale of rations laid do.ivii for prisoner; not working nt hard labour, 'i'hoy shall lie kept separate fro In the .criminal prisoners, and shall lit oilowed visits daily at n. convenient hour, and to correspond daily with their friends.

Mi.-ileiueanants of the Fir.H Division, imprisoned in default of m'ainienaiK , '! under (he Destitute Persons Act?, shall be required lo work nl one nf the wcupufions pi'escri.bi'd fur light labour prisoners, nml pIihII receive the .scale of rations I'iiil diiv.n for prisoners not \ or!;injj at. hard tobinir, unless the Inspe/ior of Prisons chilli direct thai they .".re lo he given the scale provided for 1 :irdlubuiir pi'i'.iinfp.?. They kIkiII ho kept as fin , as jiossiblc separate from crimi'ial prisoners, and shall lie nlloivotl visit* weekly at a convenient hour. They shall lie allowed lo corriwjnnd tviee in each week with their relativis and friends.

Every ]>ersnn convicted of itn uffpire and rioi sentenced to hard labour shall be treated us a misdemeanant of the Second Division, uiilci-.-f the Court or Jtuliie before whom such person has been Irii'd otherwise ' orders. Second-class mi-clo-meannnts shall bo r'Tpiirc-d fo work at ono of the occujwlions prescribed for light-labour prisoners, and shall ynceive 1 lie scale of radons laid down for j'visoners not working at hard labour, unless the Insportor of Prisons shall direct thai they are to be given the scale provided for' hard-labour prisoners. They -.hall be kept as far as possible separate from criminal prisoners, and phnll lie nllo'ved visits fortnijrhtly at a convenient hour. They shall bo allowed to correspond (inco in tach fortnight witli tlicii , relatives and friends.