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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

PRISON REGULATIONS FOR WELLINGTON GAOL.

Prisoners.

1. Coercive labour is the consequence of crime.
   The first duty of the prisoner is obedience, which will
   be most rigorously enforced. Prisoners, while under-
   going a just punishment for their offences, must bear
   in mind that it is the desire of those to whose charge
   they are intrusted to see them raised to a better
   position, and that consequently, while undergoing
   penal discipline, they will be afforded an opportunity
   of showing by industry, and orderly and regular
   behaviour, that they have acquired such sense of the
   duties owing to society, and of the obedience due to
   its laws, as will qualify them at the close of their
   term of imprisonment to enter on a new career, with
   a fair prospect of being able to make their way as
   honest and useful members of society.

2. One uniform system of discipline will prevail.
   Prisoners of less than average intellect will not on
   that account be more rigorously dealt with than
   others, but men of restless disposition will be placed
   at such description of labour as requires the closest
   and most unvarying attention, and will be kept apart
   in the prison when possible.

3. All male prisoners on entering the gaol are to
   be searched in the presence of the warden or turn-
   key. Their names, ages, countries, religion, height,
   and general description, are to be entered in a
   register, in which shall also at the same time be
   entered whether or not they can read or write.

4. They will then be required to thoroughly wash
   themselves before they put on the prison clothing,
   &c.; and if sentenced for a longer period than one
   week, their hair will be cut short, and their whiskers
   and beard shaved.

5. All money and other property taken from them
   will be entered in a book kept for the purpose, with
   the signatures of the officer who has charge of them
   and of the prisoner from whom they are received.

6. All prisoners sentenced to hard labour are to be
   kept steadily and constantly at labour.

7. They are to pay implicit obedience to all
   lawful commands they may receive, and they are on
   all occasions to pay proper respect to all persons
   placed in authority over them.

8. They are at all times and in all places to con-
   duct themselves with order and regularity, and
   silence must be strictly observed when marching to
   and from their place of labour; at no time is any
   conversation to be permitted beyond what is abso-
   lutely necessary.

9. Prisoners having any matter to represent or
   complain of, must address themselves to the warden,
   whose duty it will be to see justice done to them.
   They are not, however, precluded from addressing
   themselves to the Visiting Justices, but they should
   remember that for making idle or frivolous com-
   plaints they will render themselves liable to punish-
   ment.

10. They must appear on all occasions clean in
    person and in dress. Clothing and bedding will be
    marked with a number, and the wilful loss or damage
    of any of these articles will be visited with severe
    punishment.

11. The religious denomination of each prisoner
    is to be determined by his own statement, upon his
    reception into the prison; and no prisoner is to be
    allowed to hold intercourse with a clergyman of a
    different denomination, unless extraordinary circum-
    stances should require it, such as immediate prospect
    of death.

12. They shall attend Divine Service of the
    denomination to which they belong at the appointed
    times, and shall behave themselves with propriety.

13. For each prisoner there will be provided a
    Bible and Prayer Book approved of by the religious
    denomination to which he belongs, and the use of
    books of a secular character, approved of by the
    Visiting Justices, will be permitted. Any person
    damaging or making any book dirty to forfeit the
    privilege of using books in future.

14. Prisoners behaving in a refractory manner will
    be brought before a Visiting Justice, who will inflict
    such lawful punishment as the case may demand.
    They will on all such occasions be placed in separate
    confinement to await trial, and if necessary in irons.

15. They are not to have in their possession
    any article of food, clothing, &c., except such as shall
    have been issued to them and sanctioned by the
    medical officer or warden; all articles of luxury are
    strictly prohibited.

16. Gaming, dancing, swearing, fighting, singing,
    and loud conversation, are strictly prohibited.

17. Prisoners must not leave their place of work
    without authority.

18. Any prisoner sleeping out of his own berth,
    or entering any cell other than that appointed for his
    own use, will be punished for misconduct.

19. Prisoners may upon reception write one letter;
    afterwards they will not be allowed to send or receive
    any letters oftener than once in three months, except
    by permission of a Visiting Justice. All letters are
    to pass through the warden's hands, who will inspect
    them and exercise his own discretion as to their
    delivery, and prisoners must not hold any communi-
    cation whatever with any person without his
    authority. They may, however, if well conducted,
    be permitted to see their friends on the first Saturday
    in each Quarter. Visitors also may be admitted at
    other times at the discretion of the warden, or by
    the order of a Visiting Justice; all visits to be made
    only in the presence of an officer, and not to exceed
    twenty minutes. Any officer in the establishment
    conveying letters to or from prisoners in violation of
    this rule, to be subject to immediate dismissal.

20. Any prisoner conniving at a breach of the
    regulations will be considered as an accessory, and
    punished for misconduct.

21. A copy of the regulations shall be suspended
    in each ward.

22. Each prisoner to have his hair kept close cut,
    to be shaved on Tuesdays and Saturdays, to put on a
    clean shirt once a week, and oftener when ordered to
    do so.

23. Prisoners about to be discharged will be
    allowed to let their hair grow for a month previously.
    On the day of discharge, they shall deliver up the
    prison clothing in their possession in a clean and
    neat state, and will be placed in possession of such
    of their effects as may have been taken from them on
    committal.

24. Every prisoner before leaving the gaol is to be
    strictly searched.

25. No prisoner receiving gaol rations shall be
    allowed to receive provisions from his friends, and is
    to live exclusively on the gaol allowance.

26. Every prisoner shall take his meals in the mess-
    room; on no account shall he be permitted to eat
    them in his cell.

27. No prisoner in receipt of a superior ration or
    medical comfort shall supply another prisoner with
    any portion thereof, on penalty of being reduced to
    an inferior ration, in addition to such punishment as
    he may be liable to for so doing.

Prisoners in Solitary or Separate Confinement.

28. Every prisoner before being placed in a cell
    shall be strictly searched. He shall then be shown the
    cell and caused to examine it carefully, in order that
    any marking or defacing may be at once thereafter
    detected.