CHAPTER-25 Prisoners in cells: Confinement in cells under section 28 of the Prisons Act, 1894: Rule622. Section 28 of the Prisons Act, empowers Superintendent to confine convicted criminal prisoners either in association or individually in cells, or partly in one way and partly in the other. If any prisoner is confined in a cell under that section, he should, if circumstances permit, be treated in all other respects like ordinary prisoner confined in association.He should be locked up and unlocked at the same hours an allowed to work and have meals in association with other prisoner. The prisoner is kept in a cell because it is considered expedient to confine him there and not because he has been given this confinement as a punishment. Superintendent shall see that this section is not used as an excuse, for keeping prisoners in cells as a punishment. When it is intended to keep a prisoner in a cell as punishment, action shall be taken under rules 583 and 584. Construction of cells: Rule623. (i) A sufficient number of cells shall be provided in every prison. (ii) Each cell for solitary confinement shall have a yard attached to it, where the occupant have the benefit of fresh air without the means of communicating with other prisoners. Suitable sanitary and bathing arrangements shall also be provided. (iii) Cells intended for separate and cellular confinement shall have a general yard with suitable sanitary and bathing arrangements in which the occupants can take meals in association and be allowed to take exercise. (iv) The outer door of every cell yard shall have an eye-hole so that the occupant can be watched. The cell should have an iron 214