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Prisoners.
THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

93. Coercive labour is the consequence of crime.
    Obedience is the prisoner's first duty, and will be
    most rigorously enforced. Prisoners must remember
    that although undergoing a just punishment for their
    offences, it is the desire of those to whose charge
    they are intrusted to see them raised to a better
    position; and consequently, while under penal
    discipline, they will be afforded an opportunity for
    showing by industry and orderly and regular beha-
    viour, that they have acquired such a 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 in life as
    honest and useful men and women.

94. One uniform system of discipline will prevail.
    Prisoners of inferior capacity will not on that
    account be more rigorously dealt with than those of
    superior attainments, but men of a 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 it is
    possible to do so.

95. Prisoners on entering the gaol shall be searched
    in presence of an officer, and all articles found on
    them will be taken from them.

96. They will then be required to thoroughly wash
    themselves before they put on the prison clothing,
    their hair will be cut short, and their whiskers and
    beard shaved.

97. A list of their clothes, with all money and
    other property taken from them, will be entered in a
    book to be kept for the purpose, with the signature
    of the officer who has charge of them, and of the
    prisoner from whom they are received.

98. Every prisoner is to be kept steadily and
    constantly at labour. No relaxation of such labour
    will be permitted until the prisoner shall have com-
    pleted at least one-third of his sentence with good
    conduct, when he may be selected by the Gaoler to
    act as wardsman, cook, &c.

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

100. They are at all times and in all places to
     conduct themselves with order and regularity; and
     silence must be strictly observed when marching to
     and from their places of labour. At no time is any
     conversation to be permitted beyond what is
     absolutely necessary.

101. Prisoners having any matter to represent or
     complain of, must address themselves to the Gaoler,
     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 complaints
     they will render themselves liable to punishment.

102. They must appear on all occasions clean in
     person and in dress. Their clothing and bedding
     will be marked with a number, and should any of
     these articles be wilfully damaged, or lost through
     the carelessness of any prisoner, he will be severely
     punished.

103. Prisoners must attend Divine Service of the
     denomination to which they belong at the appointed
     times, and must behave themselves with the greatest
     propriety.

104. The religious denomination of each prisoner
     is to be determined by his voluntary statement upon
     his receipt 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 the immediate
     prospect of death, &c.

105. The Sunday must be kept holy and as a day
     of rest; and whenever a Clergyman does not attend
     the prison on that day, prayers will be read by an
     officer of the gaol.

106. Any prisoner who is a Jew is not to be
     compelled to labour on his Sabbath, but may be
     employed on any necessary duty on the Sunday.

107. Each prisoner will be provided with a Bible
     and a Prayer Book, approved by the religious deno-
     mination to which he belongs, and books of a secular
     character will also be provided for the instruction of
     prisoners, any defacing or damaging of which will be
     visited with severe punishment.

108. A prisoner behaving in a refractory manner
     will be brought before the Visiting Justice, who will
     inflict such lawful punishment as the case may
     demand. He will be placed in separate confinement
     to await trial, and in irons, if necessary.

109. Prisoners 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 Gaoler. All articles of luxury,
     such as tobacco, are strictly prohibited.

110. Gaming, dancing, swearing, immoral con-
     versation and songs, are strictly prohibited.

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

112. Any prisoner sleeping out of his own berth
     will be punished for misconduct.

113. Prisoners are not to be allowed to send or
     receive any letters oftener than once in three months
     except through the Gaoler, who will inspect them
     and exercise his own discretion as to their delivery;
     and they must not hold any communication whatever
     with any person without his authority. They may,
     however, if well conducted, be permitted to see their
     friends on the first Thursday in each quarter.

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

115. A copy of the Regulations will be suspended
     in each ward, and be read to the prisoners, and, if
     necessary, explained, once a month.

116. There will also be suspended in each ward, a
     list of the names of all prisoners belonging to it, in
     which will be noted the offence, sentence, and date of
     reception into the establishment, and a record of
     misconduct whilst therein.

117. Prisoners are to be shaved on Tuesdays and
     Saturdays-to wash their feet on the latter day-and
     to put on clean shirts on Wednesdays and Sundays.

118. Prisoners about to be discharged will be
     allowed to let their hair grow for a month previous,
     and on the day of discharge shall deliver to the
     Gaoler the prison clothing in their possession in a
     clean and neat state, and will be placed in possession
     of all effects taken from them on committal.

119. Every prisoner not employed at hard labour
     shall exercise for two hours every morning and for
     two hours every afternoon, weather permitting.

Prisoners in Solitary Confinement, or Separate
Confinement.

120. Every prisoner before being placed in a cell
     must be strictly searched.

121. He is then to be shown the cell and caused
     to examine it carefully, in order that any marking or
     defacing thereafter may at once be detected.

122. They are not upon any pretence whatever to
     communicate either by words or signs with each other
     or the men employed in cleaning their cells, nor are
     they to sing, whistle, dance, or make any noise what-
     ever, during their confinement. They must not stop
     any of the ventilating apparatus, nor deface the walls
     of their cells.

123. Should any prisoner wish to see the Visiting
     Justice, Chaplain, Medical Officer or Gaoler, he is