Prisons

Cap. 139 · Revised Edition 2020 · 63 sections

s. 1Short title
s. 2Interpretation
s. 3Prisons
s. 4Prison officers
s. 5Prison surgeons
s. 6Visiting justices and official visitors
s. 7Visits to prisoners
s. 8Commitment of prisoners
s. 9District prisons
s. 10Prisoners in districts
s. 11Other prisons in the cayes
s. 12Removal of prisoners
s. 13Penal servitude abolished
s. 14Other punishments
s. 15Pardon
s. 16Prerogative of mercy
s. 17Prison rules for officers and prisoners
s. 18Powers of Superintendent and prison officers
s. 19Superintendent to make rules
s. 20Powers of Superintendent as to suspension
s. 21Powers of Superintendent as to dismissal
s. 22Powers of Superintendent as to punishment
s. 23Forfeiture of pay, etc
s. 24Rules as to medical attendance
s. 25Attestation paper of enrolled persons
s. 26Penalty for false answers
s. 27Prison officers not to receive gratuities
s. 28Satisfaction of civil judgments against prison officers
s. 29Prison officers not to be sued
s. 30Prison officers not to engage in trade
s. 31Prison officers assigning their pay, etc., liable to dismissal
s. 32Penalty for not returning arms, etc
s. 33Use of force for carrying out identification
s. 34Discharge of prisoners
s. 35Burial of executed prisoners
s. 36Inquest on dead criminals
s. 37Employment of prisoners outside prisons
s. 38Escape and prison breach
s. 39Preventing escape
s. 40Aiding escapes
s. 41Rescue or harbouring prisoners
s. 42Wilful escape
s. 43Negligent escape
s. 44Persons communicating with prisoners
s. 45Conveying letters or articles
s. 46Trespass on prison premises
s. 47Notice of penalties outside prison
s. 48Resisting or assaulting officers
s. 49Additional sentences
s. 50Removal of prisoners from a prison to a public hospital
s. 51Status of prisoner in a public hospital
s. 52Removal of prisoner to give evidence, etc
s. 53Prison Officers Reward Fund
s. 54Payments from Fund
s. 55Minister may order payment of expenses of the removal, etc., of criminals or criminal lunatics from certain places
s. 56Contracting of prison
s. 57Director and other officers of contracted out prison
s. 58Intervention by Minister
s. 59Contracting out functions of prison officers
s. 60Licence
s. 61Refusal of licence
s. 62Suspension or cancellation of licence
s. 63Finality