Classification

(1) With a view to preventing contamination and in order to assist training, prisoners should where possible be classified in accordance with the following paragraphs of this rule. (2) Prisoners under sixteen years of age shall be placed in the Junior Prisoners’ Class. (3) Other prisoners under twenty-one years of age shall be placed in the Young Prisoners’ Class. 23 (4) (a) Prisoners of twenty-one years of age and over who have not previously been in prison on conviction shall be placed in the Star Class unless the Superintendent considers that, in view of their record or characters, they are likely to have a bad influence on others. (b) The Superintendent may also place in the Star Class a prisoner of twenty-one years of age and over who has previously been in prison on conviction if satisfied having regard to the nature of the previous offence or to the length of time since it was committed, or to the prisoner's general record and character, that he is not likely to have a bad influence on others. (5) Other convicted prisoners shall be placed in the Ordinary Class. (6) The Superintendent may after consideration of all the circumstances and having regard to the welfare of both the prisoner and others in the Young Prisoners’ Class remove a prisoner therefrom whom he regards as unsuitable by character for that class, and may place him in the Star Class. (7) The Superintendent may in his discretion at any time remove from the Star Class to the Ordinary Class a prisoner whose character has shown him to be unfit to associate with other prisoners of the Star Class. (8) Arrangements shall be made in all prisons to provide so far as practicable for the effective separation at all times of the classes of convicted prisoners.