Functions of parole officers

(1) A parole officer may, and when required by the Board, shall– (a) report to the Board on the character and personal history of any offender released on or undergoing a of imprisonment with a view to assisting the Board in determining the most suitable method of dealing with the case; and (b) in such report, advise the Board whether the would be likely to respond satisfactorily to parole and whether any special condition of parole should be imposed. (2) It shall be the duty of every parole officer– (a) to supervise all persons placed under his supervision with a view to assisting their rehabilitation and preventing the commission of further offences; and 107 (b) to perform such other duties as may from time to time be directed by the Board. (3) In the exercise of his powers and duties under these Rules, every parole officer shall have the powers, protection and privileges of a prison officer. 108 FIRST SCHEDULE [Rule 117] SCALE OF DIET Breakfast 6.30 a.m. Dinner 11.30 a.m. Tea 4 p.m. SUNDAY Vegetable Soup consisting of Pigeon Peas, Beans or Split Peas 2 oz. (1 pint each), Fresh Beef 8 oz., Bread 8 oz., Margarine ½ oz., Milk ½ oz., Sugar 1½ oz., Tea ¼ oz. Bread 4 oz., Coffee ¼ oz. or Cocoa ¼ oz. or Cornmeal 3 Sweet Potatoes, Yams, Cocos or Breadfruit 8 oz., Bread 4 oz., Salt ¼ or Cocoa ¼ oz., oz., Milk ½ oz., Sugar 1½ Cornmeal 3 oz. oz. oz., Pepper 1/40 oz., Onions ½ oz . Fresh Fish or Salt Fish (boiled) 10 MONDAY oz., Plantains 1 lb. or Yams ½ lb., Onions ½ oz., Bread 4 oz., Rice 6 Bread 8 oz., Margarine ½ oz., Milk ½ oz., Sugar 1½ oz., Tea ¼ oz. Bread 4 oz., Coffee ¼ oz. or oz. (or 3½ oz., with either Corn Grits 3 oz. or Sweet Potatoes 9 oz.), Cocoa ¼ oz. or Cornmeal 3 or Cocoa ¼ oz., oz., Milk ½ oz., Sugar 1½ Salt ½ oz., Pepper 1/40 oz., Cornmeal 3 oz. oz. Coconut Oil 1 oz. TUESDAY Fresh Beef 8 oz., Rice 6 oz. or Corn Bread 8 oz., Margarine Grits 6 oz., Beans or Pigeon Peas 2 oz., Onions ½ oz., Bread 4 oz., Salt ½ oz., Milk ½ oz., Sugar 1½ oz., Tea ¼ oz. Bread 4 oz., Coffee ¼ oz. or Cocoa ¼ oz. or Cornmeal 3 1/3 oz., Pepper 1/40 oz. Coconut Oil 1 oz. or Cocoa ¼ oz., oz., Milk ½ oz., Sugar 1½ Cornmeal 3 oz. oz. Fresh Fish or Salt Fish (fried) 10 WEDNESDAY oz., Rice 6 oz. (or 3½ oz. with either sweet potatoes 9 oz., Yams 8 oz., Plantains 1 lb. or Cocos 10 oz.), Onions ¼ oz., Bread 4 oz., Beans or Bread 8 oz., Margarine ½ oz., Milk ½ oz., Sugar 1½ oz., Tea ¼ oz. Bread 4 oz., Coffee ¼ oz. or Cocoa ¼ oz. or Cornmeal 3 or Cocoa ¼ oz., oz., Milk ½ oz., Sugar 1½ Pigeon Peas 2 oz., Salt 1 oz., Pepper 1/40 oz., Coconut Oil 2½ Cornmeal 3 oz. oz. oz. Prisons 109 Breakfast Dinner Tea 6.30 a.m. 11.30 a.m. 4 p.m. Fresh Fish or Salt Fish (boiled) 10 THURSDAY oz., Plantains 1 lb. or Yams ½ lb., Onions ½ oz., Bread 4 oz., Rice 6 oz. Bread 8 oz., Margarine ½ oz., Milk ½ oz., Sugar Bread 4 oz., Coffee ¼ oz. or (or 3½ oz. with either Corn Grits 3 1½ oz., Tea ¼ oz. or Cocoa ¼ oz., Cornmeal 3 Cocoa ¼ oz. or Cornmeal 3 oz. or Sweet Potatoes 9 oz.) Salt ½ oz., Pepper 1/40 oz., Coconut Oil 1 oz., Milk ½ oz., Sugar 1½ oz. oz. oz. FRIDAY Bread 8 oz., Margarine ½ oz., Milk ½ oz., Sugar Fresh Beef 8 oz., Rice 6 oz. or Corn Grits 6 oz., Beans or Pigeon Peas 2 Bread 4 oz., Coffee ¼ oz. or 1½ oz., Tea ¼ oz. or Cocoa ¼ oz., Cornmeal 3 oz., Onions ½ oz., Bread 4 oz., Salt 1/3 oz., Pepper 1/40 oz., Coconut Oil 1 oz. Cocoa ¼ oz. or Cornmeal 3 oz., Milk ½ oz., Sugar 1½ oz. oz. Fresh Fish or Salt Fish (Fried) 10 oz., SATURDAY Rice 6 oz. (or 3½ oz. with either Sweet Potatoes 9 oz., Yams 8 oz., Bread 8 oz., Margarine ½ oz., Milk ½ oz., Sugar Bread 4 oz., Coffee ¼ oz. or Plantains 1 lb. or Cocos 10 oz.) Onions ½ oz., Bread 4 oz., Beans or Pigeon Peas 2 oz., Salt 1 oz., Pepper 1½ oz., Tea ¼ oz. or Cocoa ¼ oz., Cornmeal 3 Cocoa ¼ oz. or Cornmeal 3 oz., Milk ½ oz., Sugar 1½ oz. oz. 1/40 oz., Coconut Oil 2½ oz. NOTE Gracie Rock Prison Farm prisoners receive an extra 2 oz. Bread and 1 oz. Fried Beans each morning. Fresh Fruit when in season is supplied once per week. Butter mixed with Evaporated Milk is used as a substitute when margarine is not available. 110 Prisons SECOND SCHEDULE RESTRICTED DIETS The restricted diets which may be awarded under Rules 50, 51 and 52 shall be as follows– (1) No. 1 Diet– (a) This diet, when given for a period of three days, or less, shall consist of 1 lb. of bread per day with water. (b) This diet, when given for more than three days, shall consist for alternate periods of three days of (i) 1 lb. bread per day with water; (ii) the diet prescribed for prisoners employed on ordinary industrial labour. (c) No task of labour shall be enforced on any one of the days on which bread and water constitute the sole food supplied to the prisoner, who may, nevertheless, be allowed the option of performing suitable labour in the cell. (d) No prisoner who has been on No. 1 diet shall be placed upon this diet for a fresh offence until an interval has elapsed equal to the period already passed by the prisoner on No. 1 diet. (2) No. 2 Diet– (a) This diet when given for a period of twenty- one days, or less, shall consist ofPrisons 111 Meal I Bread 8 oz. with water. 1 pint of porridge containing 3 oz. of cornmeal, bread 8 oz. with water, ground provisions 8 oz. Meal III Bread 8 oz. with water. (b) This diet when given for a period of more than twenty-one days shall consist of– (i) for the first twenty-one days the diet as at (2)(a). (ii) for the next seven days the diet prescribed for prisoners employed on ordinary industrial labour. (iii) for the remainder of the period, the diet as at (2)(a). (c) If a prisoner while on No. 2 diet is guilty of misconduct, No. 2 diet may be temporarily interrupted, and the prisoner may be placed on No. 1 diet for a period not exceeding three days; on the expiration of the period awarded on No. 1 diet the prisoner shall resume the diet originally ordered, and the period passed on the No. 1 diet shall count as part of the period originally awarded on No. 2 diet– Provided that no prisoner who has been on No. 2 diet for a period of twenty-one days continuously shall be again placed either on No. 1 or No. 2 diet until after the expiration of one week. 112 Prisons THIRD SCHEDULE [Rules 14, 214] RULES IN CASE OF FIRE Summoning of officers. 1. If any part of the prison is found to be on fire, or in danger from fire, the Superintendent shall immediately be notified, whether the fire be at once extinguished or not. If it is not at once extinguished, all officers sleeping in or living near the prison shall at once be summoned by the alarm bell and keys to be issued to them. Notice shall also be given to the Police at Headquarters, and to the Fire Brigade by telephone. First consideration. 2. If a fire occurs in any building occupied by prisoners or contiguous thereto, safety of life shall first be attended to: the safe custody of prisoners shall receive next consideration. The prisoners endangered by the fire shall at once be removed to the yard or other place of safety, the Superintendent using his discretion as to the use of mechanical restraints. Sick prisoners shall be removed to a part of the prison where they can be out of danger and shall be provided for as comfortably as circumstances admit. Prevention of draughts. 3. All doors and windows shall, if possible, be kept closed, to prevent draughts adding intensity to the flames. Lighting of yard. 4. If the fire occurs at night, the whole of the yard, etc., shall be lighted up, so far as practicable, and held in readiness to receive prisoners. Stores and records. 5. After due attention has been paid to the life and safe custody of the prisoners, the prison stores, records, etc., shall receive attention for the purpose of preventing loss or damage through fire and water. Prisons 113 Fire buckets. 6. Buckets shall be kept filled, some with water and some with sand, and shall be kept ready for use in easily accessible positions in different parts of the men’s and women’s prisons. FOURTH SCHEDULE [Rules 216– 219] Subordinate Staff 3 pairs khaki trousers ...................................... annually 3 khaki shirts ................................................... annually 1 khaki tunic ................................................ as required 2 pairs boots .................................................... annually 1 cap ................................................................ annually 1 pair gum boots .......................................... as required 1 water-proof cloak ...................................... as required 1 pair canvas rubber shoes ........................... as required 1 helmet ....................................................... as required 1 bush hat (for officers at G.R.P.F.) ................ annually Matron 3 dresses (blue linen) ....................................... annually 2 pairs ladies shoes .......................................... annually 1 ladies service cap (blue linen) ...................... annually 1 pair gum boots .......................................... as required 114 Prisons FIFTH SCHEDULE [Rule 109] MEDICAL ATTENDANCE ON PRISON OFFICERS 1. Every officer who from illness is unable to attend duty shall, in order to be allowed to receive pay as herein provided, as soon as practicable after the commencement of such illness, procure a sick report from the prison, and attend at the hospital and submit to an examination by the Medical Officer. 2. Every such officer, as to whom the Medical Officer shall, after such examination, report that he is from illness unable to perform duty, and who shall carry out the directions of the Medical Officer as to entering and remaining in the hospital or attending at any dispensary under the charge of the Medical Officer, and generally as to the treatment of such illness, shall receive pay during the time, not exceeding one and one half months, that he is unable to perform duty, at the following rate, viz– (a) if the Medical Officer reports that his illness was not occasioned by his own misconduct, then full pay during the first month and half pay during the subsequent half month; or (b) if the Medical Officer reports that his illness was occasioned by his own misconduct then half pay throughout. 3. The Minister may in special cases on the recommendation of the Superintendent allow any such officer to receive full pay in respect of the whole or part of the period during which he is unable from illness to perform duty notwithstanding that his illness was occasioned by his misconduct and notwithstanding that he does not comply with the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Prisons 115 4. Except as provided in paragraphs 2 and 3 hereof no such officer shall be allowed to receive any pay in respect of any period during which he is unable from illness to perform duty. 5. Every such officer, who when unable from illness to perform duty, does not comply with the provisions set out in paragraph 2 hereof– (a) shall, as soon as practicable after the commencement of his illness, send to the prison a certificate, and, if his inability to perform duty continues after the expiration of the period mentioned in such certificate, shall, from time to time as long as the inability continues, as soon as practicable after the expiration of the period mentioned in a previous certificate, send to the prison a further certificate; (b) shall, as long as the inability continues, report himself, daily at the prison, if the state of his health allows, or also allow himself to be visited daily by an officer deputed by the Superintendent and in default of complying with the provisions of this Schedule shall be liable to punishment as for absence from duty without leave unless he proves that such non- compliance was unavoidable on his part. 6. Every such officer who, for a period of six weeks is from illness unable to perform duty, shall submit to an examination by the Medical Officer, and if he refuses or neglects when required by the Superintendent or the Medical Officer to submit to such examination, or if after such examination the Medical Officer reports him to be unfit for further service in the prison, may be at once discharged therefrom. Such examination shall be held at the hospital, unless the officer in question, not being at the time a patient in the hospital, shall, when required by the Superintendent to submit to the examination, send to the prison 116 Prisons a certificate signed by a duly qualified medical practitioner stating that he is unable from illness to attend at the hospital to be examined, in which latter case he shall be examined by the Medical Officer at the place at which he may be at the time. 7. In the event of an officer taking a hospital or private sick report and on examination by the Medical Officer being found to be fit for duty, it shall be in the discretion of the Superintendent to cause such officer to forfeit pay for the length of time that he was absent from duty. Absence for any portion of a day is to count as a day in calculating the amount of pay to be forfeited. Prisons 117 SIXTH SCHEDULE (Section 264) 32 of 2010. SERIOUS OFFENCES 1. Murder, attempt murder, manslaughter, dangerous and grievous bodily harm. 2. Treason and other offence against the state. 3. Blackmail. 4. Kidnapping, illegal restraint and hostage-taking. 5. Robbery. 6. Aggravate Burglary. 7. Maim. 8. Theft involving more than $10,000.00. 9. Counterfeiting. 10. Extortion. 11. Forgery. 12. Fraud. 13. Cyber related crime. 14. Terrorism including terrorist financing and related offences. 15. Drug Trafficking and related offences. CAP. 143. 16. Offences under the Firearms Act. 118 Prisons 17. Arms trafficking. 18. Smuggling. 19. Trafficking in human beings and migrant smuggling. 20. Illicit trafficking in stolen and other goods. 21. Participation in criminal gangs and racketeering. 22. Rape. 23. Sexual exploitation of women and children. 24. Other sexual crime (other sexually related crime).