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. 117

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