(ii) Superior class under-trial or convicted prisoners should,
where possible, be kept apart from ordinary prisoners.
Provision where there is only one woman prisoner.
Rule310 .Where there is only one woman prisoner in the
prison, arrangement shall be made for a women warder to remain
with her both by day and night. In case of a prisoner who is
ineligible for transfer under Rule 306, the Superintendent should if
he considers .her detention in that prison inadvisable, seek the
orders of the Inspector-General as to her transfer.
Removal from the women's enclosure.
Rule311. (i) No women prisoner shall leave or be removed
from the women's enclosure except for transfer, attendance in
Court, release, or under orders of the Superintendent, for any
special purpose.
(ii) Every women prisoner who is authorised to leave the
women's enclosure- shall be accompanied by and be in the custody
of a woman warder from the time she leaves the enclosure until she
has been brought back to it.
Work.
Rule312. Women convicted prisoners shall ordinarily be
employed on spinning, newar making etc., and shall, whenever
possible, be given instructions in needle work, knitting and other
domestic industries. They shall not be employed on grinding grain
or similar irksome work.
Bar to certain kinds of punishments.
Rule313. A woman prisoner shall not be punished by the
imposition of handcuffs, fetters or whipping, provided that
handcuffs may if absolutely necessary, be imposed on any woman
prisoner for the purpose of restraint only. Women prisoners shall
not wear fetters on transfer.
Conditions under which male officers may enter women's
enclosure.
Rule314. A male officer of the prison may enter the
women's ward by day only if he has a legitimate duty to attend to,
and is accompanied by the woman warder all the time he remains
inside such ward or enclosure. Should it be necessary to enter the
women's ward at night, the head warder on duty shall call the
Deputy Superintendent, and the women warder and these three
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