Rule304. When juvenile prisoner is due for release and
required assistance to settle in life, the Superintendent shall send
intimation to the Secretary of the District Committee of the
Prisoners' Welfare Society of the district of his residence at least
one month before the date of release.
CHAPTER-13
Women Prisoners and Innocent Children
Separation of prisoners
Rule305. Women prisoners both convicted and under-trial,
shall, as required by section 27 of the Prisons Act, 1894, be rigidly
secluded from male prisoners so as to prevent their seeing,
conversing or holding any communication with them. The women's
enclosure shall be so situated as not to be visible from any part of
the male prison.
Women prisoners.
Rule306. Women prisoners with sentences of two months or
more shall ordinarily be transferred to the Women's Prison.
Disposal of women prisoners not provided for in the
preceding rule.
Rule307. (i) Women prisoners with sentences of less than
two months shall be confined in the prisons to which they are
committed,
(ii) When the number of women prisoners confined in any
prison is in excess of the available accommodation, the excess
number shall ordinarily, irrespective of the length of sentences, be
transferred to the Women's Prison,
Age group of prisoners.
Rule308. Women prisoners fall into the following age
groups:(1) Juveniles
Those under 16 years of age.
(2) Adolescents
Those from 16 to 20 years of age.
(3) Adults
Those over 20 years of age.
Separation of different classes of women prisoners,
Rule309. The following classes of women prisoners shall be
kept apart from one another:(i) Unconvicted from convicted prisoners; juveniles and
adolescent from adult prisoners; habitual from casual prisoners;
and prostitutes and procuresses from respectable women.
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