(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 118

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