Section 36
Employment of criminal prisoners sentenced to simple imprisonment.
About this Act
An Act to extend the Indian Easements Act, 1882, to certain areas in which that Act is not in force.
Provision
shall be made by the Superintendent for the employment (as long as they so desire) of all criminal
prisoners sentenced to simple imprisonment; but no prisoner not sentenced to rigorous imprisonment shall
be punished for neglect of work excepting by such alteration in the scale of diet as may be established by
the rules of the prison in the case of neglect of work by such a prisoner.