Section 36

Employment of criminal prisoners sentenced to simple imprisonment.

The Prisons Act, 1894

  • Act 9 of 1894
  • Ministry of Home Affairs
  • Department of States
About this Act

An Act to extend the Indian Easements Act, 1882, to certain areas in which that Act is not in force.

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    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.
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