Prison Regulations Continuation




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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

  1. All games of chance are strictly pro-
    hibited.
  2. Spirits are strictly prohibited.
  3. Tobacco (unless allowed by medical
    officer) is strictly prohibited.
  4. No rations but those of scale No. 2 to
    be given to any prisoner without the order of
    the Superintendent or of a medical officer.
  5. Every prisoner shall wash and mend
    his clothes once a week.
  6. Every prisoner is to receive notice
    from the Gaoler the morning before his dis-
    charge, and every prisoner before leaving is
    to deliver to the Gaoler the two suits of Gaol
    Clothing received on entry, in a clean and
    neat state. To be strictly searched by the
    Gaoler and to be put in possession of all
    effects he was deprived of on committal, and
    if not taken away by him the same may be
    disposed of in such manner as the visiting
    Justices may direct.

Particular Rules for the Criminal Side of
the Gaol Prisoners sentenced to Hard
Labour.

  1. At ten minutes before 8 o'clock every
    hard labor man is to be mustered by the
    overseer, and at 8 marched to the place of
    labor, there to be set to work by the overseer,
    under the direction of the Superintendent of
    Public Works.
  2. At 12 o'clock each hard labor prisoner
    is to be marched back to the Gaol for dinner;
    at which meal each hard labor man is to
    receive an extra ration of 1/2 lb. of meat during
    his good behaviour, any inattention to the
    rules will cause such extra allowance to be
    stopped.
  3. At 1 o'clock the hard labor prisoner
    shall be marched by the overseer to the place
    of labor to resume work until 5; when
    having carefully delivered over the imple-
    ments in use to the custody of the Chief
    Constable, they shall be marched to Gaol.
  4. On Wednesdays hard labor shall cease
    at 4 o'clock and on Saturdays there shall be
    no afternoon hard labor. Such extra time to
    be employed in washing and mending clothes,
    or in rational and quiet conversation or
    reading.
  5. During wet weather hard labor men to
    be employed at the discretion of the Gaoler
    on work inside the Gaol.

Convicted Prisoners not sentenced to hard
labour.

  1. Every prisoner not sentenced to hard
    labor to take exercise "two" hours every
    morning and "two" hours every afternoon,
    under the charge of the Gaoler or an Overseer.

Juvenile Unconvicted prisoners.

  1. Every such prisoner to take exercise
    as by Rule 35.
  2. Every such prisoner may procure for
    his own use, at his own expense, such articles
    as he may require (Spirits, Ale, Beer, Wine,
    or Tobacco excepted), and all such articles
    must be inspected on entry by the Gaoler;
    and every such prisoner may wear his own
    private apparel.

Female Convicted Prisoners.

  1. Female prisoners to occupy separate
    cells, and to be kept apart from male prisoners,
    and to be under the immediate custody of the
    Gaoler until such time as a matron be actually
    required.
  2. Female prisoners to be employed in
    washing and mending, for the Gaol under
    the direction of the Gaoler.
  3. Female prisoners to exercise as by
    Rule 35, but not at same time with male
    prisoners.
  4. The other rules to be applied to female
    prisoners except in so far as exclusively
    applicable to male prisoners.

Juvenile Convicted Prisoners.

  1. Such Juvenile prisoners to occupy
    separate cells and to be employed on work
    about the Gaol; under the superintendence of
    Gaoler.

Cooking.

  1. For the purpose of cooking the rations
    for all the prisoners (convicted, unconvicted,
    or debtors), and for cooking the meals for
    the Gaoler and the Overseers, one cook for
    every six prisoners or fractional part of six
    shall be allowed.
  2. Every cook shall be selected by the
    Gaoler, and, if possible from Prisoners sen-
    tenced to hard labor.
  3. Every cook to prepare meals in a
    clean and proper manner, to wash up all
    plates and kitchen utensils, and to keep all
    the tables and forms in a clean, and proper
    state.
  4. The cooks to sweep out the entire
    Gaol and all the cells every morning.
  5. The cooks to be responsible that all
    bedding or clothes hung out to dry or air are
    brought in during wet weather, if at the
    time the prisoners to whom such clothes or
    bedding belong are at hard labor.
  6. The cooks to be employed during spare
    time in such work about the Gaol as the
    Gaoler may allot to them.
  7. The cooks to wash the Gaol and all
    floors twice a week in summer, and once a
    week in winter.
  8. The cooks, if not hard labor prisoners,
    to be allowed the same extra ration of meat
    as if they were hard labor men.

Officers and Servants of the Gaol.

  1. The Gaoler shall never sleep out of
    the Gaol, without a written authority from
    the Superintendent.
  2. Proper Registers, Journals, Account
    Books; &c., to be kept regularly, and to be
    open to the inspection of the visiting Magis-
    trates.
  3. The Gaoler to read the rules to the
    prisoners on entry, and as occasion may re-
    quire.
  4. The Gaoler to enforce great cleanliness
    throughout the entire buildings, and to see
    that the overseers enforce the same.


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⚖️ Continuation of Prison Regulations for Dunedin Gaol. (continued from previous page)

⚖️ Justice & Law Enforcement
25 October 1859
Prison rules, discipline, hard labor, juvenile prisoners, female prisoners, Gaoler duties, cooking staff