New Zealand Gazette – 1913 – No. 4

Page 165

✨ Prison Regulations



JAN. 23.] THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE. 165

PUNISHMENTS.

  1. A prisoner shall not be punished for a breach of any rule or regulation relating to the maintenance of discipline within the prison unless and until he has had an opportunity of hearing the charges and evidence against him and of making his defence.

  2. Prisoners undergoing solitary confinement shall on and after the third day be allowed such exercise during the period of this punishment as the Medical Officer shall deem necessary.

  3. If any prisoner undergoing solitary confinement wishes to see a Visiting Justice, an Official Visitor, a minister of religion, the Inspector, the Medical Officer, or the Gaoler, he shall inform the warder on duty accordingly, whose duty it will be to report to the Gaoler promptly. All other communication is strictly prohibited.

  4. Every prisoner in solitary confinement is to be deprived of his mattress.

Corporal Punishment.

  1. No instrument shall be used for the purpose of inflicting corporal punishment upon any prisoner except as authorized by the Minister. All authorized instruments shall bear a tag attached to them with the following inscription: “Authorized.—A. B., Minister of Justice. [Date.]”

  2. In each prison there shall be duplicates of every instrument authorized for the infliction of corporal punishment.

  3. No instrument shall be used or continued in use that is out of order.

  4. Any instrument that is not authorized or is out of order shall be forwarded immediately to the Under-Secretary.

ESCAPING OR ATTEMPTING TO ESCAPE.

  1. Any prisoner escaping or attempting to escape shall thereby render himself liable to be shot by any officer of the prison if, after having been called upon to stand, he refuses or fails to do so.

PRISONERS UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH.

  1. Prisoners under sentence of death shall be in charge of the Gaoler till the day appointed for the execution, when the Gaoler shall hand them over to the Sheriff on demand; they shall be frequently and carefully searched, and all dangerous articles taken from them; they shall be confined in a cell apart from all other prisoners, and placed day and night in charge of officers; they shall be allowed such diet and exercise as the Medical Officer may recommend; and they shall be visited only by a minister of religion, the Visiting Justices, Official Visitors, Inspector, the Sheriff, immediate relatives, or an officer of the prison, or such other persons as may be authorized by the Minister. The Gaoler may, if he thinks it necessary for their safe custody, place them in irons.

RULES FOR THE REMISSION OF SENTENCES.

  1. The time which every prisoner sentenced to hard labour must pass in prison shall be represented by a certain number of marks which he may earn by industry and good conduct, and by obtaining such marks shall become entitled to a remission of part of his sentence in accordance with the following rules:—

  2. The scale of marks shall be—Eight marks per diem for steady hard labour; seven marks per diem for a lesser standard of labour; six marks per diem for a fair or moderate standard of labour.

  3. On Sundays, holidays, and such other times when prisoners are not mustered for labour the same rate of marks shall be awarded for good conduct.

  4. The number of marks allotted to any sentence shall be determined by multiplying the number of days in the sentence by 6. All marks earned in excess of six per diem shall count for remission at the rate of one day’s remission for every eight marks earned.

  5. The officer in charge of prison works shall carefully inspect the work of all prisoners, and allot the marks daily earned.

  6. Prisoners while in solitary confinement shall be credited with six marks only per diem.

  7. Prisoners while in separate confinement shall be credited with six marks only per diem, unless the Inspector otherwise directs.

  8. Prisoners who are unable to work through illness or any other cause are to be credited with six marks per diem, but these may be increased by the Inspector.

  9. The maximum amount of remission that a prisoner sentenced to hard labour for more than six months may earn in accordance with these rules is a period equal to one-fourth of the period to which he was sentenced.

  10. Prisoners not sentenced to hard labour who volunteer for and perform hard labour shall be granted the same remissions according to marks as prisoners sentenced to hard labour.

  11. Gaolers shall forward to the Under-Secretary on or before the 15th day of each month applications for remission of sentences in respect of all prisoners confined in their respective prisons who will have earned such remissions on or before the last day of the succeeding month.

  12. Gaolers having no prisoners for whom application is to be made shall forward a “nil” return.

Life Sentences.

  1. The above rules for the remission of sentences do not apply in the case of prisoners serving life sentences.

TABLE OF GRATUITIES.

  1. Prisoners sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour shall be paid, on their release, gratuities according to the following scale:—

Scale.

Third class .. .. .. 1d. for each thirty marks.
Second class .. .. .. 1½d. „
First class .. .. .. 2d. „
Special class .. .. .. 2½d. „

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