CHAPTER IV
Administration of correctional homes
5. Chief officer and other officers of correctional services. – (1) The Inspector General of Prisons, Additional Inspector General of Prisons and Deputy Inspector General of Prisons under the Prisons Act, 1894, shall, on and from the date of commencement of this Act, be designated as the Inspector General of Correctional Services, Additional Inspector General of Correctional Services and Deputy Inspector General of Correctional Services respectively.
(2) The Inspector General of Correctional Services shall be the Chief officer of correctional homes and correctional services and the control and superintendence of correctional services shall vest in him.
(3) The State GovernmentGovernment HM Govt consists of the Prime Minister, their Cabinet, and junior ministers, supported by the teams of non-political civil servants that work in government departments. The American Federal Government consists of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches. may appoint such numberNumber Αριθμός of Additional Inspector General of Correctional Services and Deputy Inspector General of Correctional Homes and Correctional Services to assist the Inspector General of Correctional Services as the State Government may consider necessary.
(4) All officers of the below the rank of Additional Inspector General of Correctional Services, appointed under the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed to be subordinate to the Inspector General of Correctional Services, and shall be bound to obey his orders, directions and instructions.
6. Officers and staff of central correctional homes, districtDistrict India has 800 districts under 29 federal states and 8 union territories.
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Saharsa Sahebganj Saitual Sakti Salem Salumbar Samastipur Samba Purba Medinipur Purbi Champaran Puri Purnia Purulia Rae Bareli Raichur Raigad Raigarh Raipur Raisen Rajanna Sircilla Rajgarh Rajkot Rajnandgaon Rajouri Rajsamand Ramanagara Ramanathapuram Ramban Ramgarh Rampur Ranchi Ranga Reddy Sambalpur Sambhal Sangareddy Sangli Sangrur Sant Kabir Nagar Saraikela Kharsawan Saran Sarangarh-Bilaigarh Satara Satna Sawai Madhopur Sehore Senapati Seoni Sepahijala Serchhip Shahdara Shahdol Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar Shahjahanpur Shajapur Shamator Shamli Sheikhpura Sheohar Sheopur Shi Yomi Shimla Shivamogga Shivpuri Shopian Shrawasti Siaha Siang Siddharthnagar Siddipet Sidhi Sikar Simdega Sindhudurg Singrauli Sirmaur Sirohi Sirsa Sitamarhi Sitapur Sivaganga Sivasagar Siwan Solan Solapur Sonbhadra Sonepur Sonipat Sonitpur Soreng South South 24 Parganas South Andamans South East South Garo Hills South Goa South Salmara Mancachar South Tripura South West South West Garo Hills South West Khasi Hills 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Yadadri Bhuvanagiri Yadgir Yamunanagar Yavatmal Zunheboto Umaria Una Unakoti Unnao Upper Siang Upper Subansiri Uttar Bastar Kanker Uttar Dinajpur Uttara Kannada Uttarkashi Vadodara Vaishali Valsad Varanasi Vellore Vidisha Vijayanagara Vijayapura Vikarabad Viluppuram Virudhunagar Visakhapatnam Vizianagaram Wanaparthy correctional homes and special correctional homes. – (1) The Jailor, Deputy Jailor and Sub-Jailor under the Prisons Act, 1894, shall, on and from the date of commencement of this Act, be designated as the Chief Controller of Correctional Services, Controller of Correctional Services and Assistant Controller of Correctional Services respectively.
(2) For every central correctional homeHome Αρχική >
, district correctional home and special correctional home, there shall be a Superintendent and such number of Medical Officer, Chief Controller of Correctional Services, Chief Welfare Officer, Welfare Officer and other officer and staff as the State Government may from timeTime χρόνος. Judicial: Where any expression of it occurs in any Rules, or any judgment, order or direction, and whenever the doing or not doing of anything at a certain time of the day or night or during a certain part of the day or night has an effect in law, that time is, unless it is otherwise specifically stated, held to be standard time as used in a particular country or state. (In Physics, time and Space never exist actually-“quantum entanglement”) यमः , पुं, (यमयति नियमयति जीवानां फलाफलमिति । यम् + अच् । विश्वे च कलयत्येव यः सर्व्वायुश्च सन्ततम् । अतीव दुर्निवार्य्यञ्च तं कालं प्रणमाम्यहम् ॥यमैश्च नियमैश्चैव यः करोत्यात्मसंयमम् । स चादृष्ट्वा तु मां याति परं ब्रह्म सनातनम् ॥ to time appoint. The Superintendent shall be the officer-in-charge of the correctional home and correctional services and shall have control and superintendence of the correctional home and all other officers and staff shall be subordinate to him and shall render due obedience to his orders, instructions and directions.
(3) The State Government may, for proper administration of any central correctional home, district correctional home or special correctional home, appoint such other officers and staff as it may consider necessary.
(4) The qualifications and the method of recruitment of the officers and staff of the correctional homes shall be such as may be prescribed.
7. Officers and staff of subsidiary correctional homes. – (1) (a) The Sub-Divisional Officer of every sub-division shall be the ex officio Superintendent of the subsidiary correctional home of the sub-division and the Sub-Divisional Medical Officer of every sub-division shall be the ex officio Deputy Superintendent of the subsidiary correctional home of the sub-division.
(b) There shall be such other officers and staff in every subsidiary correctional home as the State Government may from time to time appoint.
(2) The Sub-Divisional Officer or, in his absence, such other officer as may be authorised by him shall pay visit to the subsidiary correctional home at least twice a week.
(3) The Sub-Divisional Medical Officer shall pay visit to the subsidiary correctional home at least twice a week. He shall take necessary measures for treatment of prisoners confined in the correctional home as and when he is informed of any ailment of a prisoner by any officer of the correctional home. He may also delegate to any Medical Officer subordinate to him all his duties and functions as Deputy Superintendent of the correctional home.
8. Chief Controller of Correctional Services. – (1) The Chief Controller of Correctional Services shall, subject to the control and supervision of the Superintendent, be in charge of the correctional home and shall be the custodian of the prisoners and the properties of the prisoners and the correctional home.
(2) The Chief Controller of Correctional Services shall-
(i) give, on the death of a prisoner in a correctional home, immediate report of such death to the Superintendent and the Medical Officer of the correctional home, narrating in brief the circumstances under which the prisoner died;
(ii) be responsible for the safe-custody of the records of the condemned warrants and all other documentsDocument It means any matter expressed or described or otherwise recorded upon any substance by means of letters, figures or marks or any other means or by more than one of those means, intended to be used, or which may be used, for the purpose of recording that matter and includes electronic and digital records. (Bharatiya Sakshya Adhiniyam 2023) and the moneyMoney Χρήματα, νόμισμα (currency), Old French monoie, Pecunia, Money supply, Reserve money, Monetary System, Money-laundering, Electronic Money, Money Transfer, Promissory notes. Coin of Alexander (330 B.C.E). Dematerialized form is Paper Currency( In USA 1600 CE and in 1861 in India). Money makes men. Balance of Payments, Net borrowing. Euro, Dollar, INR. and other articles taken from the prisoners;
(iii) perform such other duties and discharge such other functions as may be prescribed; and
(iv) not, without previous permission of the Inspector General of Prisons and Director of Correctional Services, be concerned with any other employment.
(3) The Chief Controller of Correctional Services shall be provided with residential quarters adjacent to the correctional home and he shall not, without previous permission in writing obtained from the Superintendent, leave his quarters for any private business or reside elsewhere. If, for any unavoidable reasons, the Chief Controller of Correctional Service is required to leave his quarters temporarily without previous permission of the Superintendent, he shall, before leaving his quarters place an officer immediatelyForthwith In Rao Mahmood Ahmad Khan v. Ranbir Singh , has held that the word ‘forthwith’ is synonymous with the word immediately, which means with all reasonable quickness. When a statute requires something to be done ‘forthwith’ or ‘immediately’ or even ‘instantly’, it should probably be understood as allowing a reasonable time for doing it. The interpretation of the word ‘forthwith’ would depend upon the terrain in which it travels and would take its colour depending upon the prevailing circumstances which can be variable. (Shento Varghese v. Julfikar Husen & Ors [2024] 6 S.C.R. 409).
Anwar Ahmad v. State of UP [1976] 1 SCR 779 : AIR (1976) SC 680; Nevada Properties (P) Ltd. v. State of Maharashtra & Anr. [2019] 15 SCR 223 : (2019) 20 SCC 119; State of Maharashtra v. Tapas D. Neogy [1999] Supp. 2 SCR 609 : 1999 INSC 417; Ravinder Kumar & Anr. v. State of Punjab [2001] Supp. 2 SCR 463 : (2001) 7 SCC 690; Bhajan Singh and Ors. v. State of Haryana [2011] 7 SCR 1 : 2011 INSC 422; HN Rishbud v. State of Delhi [1955] 1 SCR 1150 : (1954) 2 SCC 934; Sk. Salim v. State of West Bengal [1975] 3 SCR 394 : (1975) 1 SCC 653; China Apparao and Others v. State of Andhra Pradesh [2002] Supp. 3 SCR 175 : (2002) 8 SCC 440; Navalshankar Ishwarlal Dave v. State of Gujarat [1993] 3 SCR 676 : 1993 Supp. 3 SCC 754; Rao Mahmood Ahmad Khan v. Ranbir Singh [1995] 2 SCR 230 : (1995) Supp. 4 SCC 275; Bidya Deb Barma v. District Magistrate [1969] 1 SCR 562 : (1968) SCC OnLine SC 82. subordinate to him in charge of the correctional home during his absence. The Chief Controller of Correctional Services shall, immediately on his return, inform the Superintendent giving the details of the hour at which he left his quarters and the hour at which he returned to the quarters and the circumstances under which he was compelled to leave his quarters without previous permission of the Superintendent.
9. Controller of Correctional Services. – The State Government may appoint one or more Controllers of Correctional Services for each correctional home (other than a subsidiary correctional home) as it may consider necessary. Subject to the control of the Superintendent, the Controller of Correctional Services shall be competent to perform all or any of the duties of the Chief Controller of Correctional Services and shall perform such other duties as may be prescribed.
10. Discipline of Officers. – (1) For each central correctional home, there shall be a Chief Discipline Officer and such number of Discipline Officer who shall be subordinate to the Chief Discipline Officer, as the State Government may appoint.
(2) The Chief Discipline Officer shall have the same rank and status as that of the Chief Controller of Correctional Services and the Discipline Officer shall have the same rank and status as that of the Controller of Correctional Services. The qualifications and terms and conditions of service of the Chief Discipline Officer and the Discipline Officer shall be such as may be prescribed.
(3) The Chief Discipline Officer shall supervise the performance of the Discipline Officer. It shall be the duty of the Chief Discipline Officer and the Discipline Officer-
(a) to go on round inside the correctional home to ensure proper and effective watch by the warders and observance of rules by the prisoners and to take measures against slackening of security and discipline at the gate of the correctional home;
(b) to assist the Chief Controller of Correctional Services in the maintenance of security and discipline in the correctional home, specially in between gates;
(c) to receive prisoners from courts, other correctional homes and places of detention with requisite writs, warrants or orders along with the prisoners’ personal cash and other properties and to pass the prisoners;
(d) to supervise the work of the gate keepers;
(e) to prevent smuggling of any prohibited or unauthorised article in the correctional home;
(f) to check with reference to challans and gate passes of articles coming into or passing out of the correctional home and keep accountsAccounting It is the process of recording, summarizing, analyzing, and reporting financial transactions of a business or individual.
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thereof in the gate register of articles to be maintained for the purpose;
(g) to searchSearch Google SEO: Meaning> Relevance> Quality> Usability> Context all prisoners passing into or out of, or coming into or going out of, the gate of the correctional home;
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(i) to attend the weekly inspection by the Superintendent and the ceremonial parades;
(j) to perform such other duties as the Superintendent may allot from time to time.
(4) In addition to the duties as aforesaid, the Chief Discipline Officer may search head warders, warders and other subordinate staff of the correctional home and all persons going into, or coming out of, the correctional home. The Chief Discipline Officer shall not search any non-official visitor without special order of the Superintendent. If the Chief Discipline Officer has reasons to believe that any person exempted from search is carrying any prohibited or unauthorised article, he may stop such person between the gates and refer the matterMatter Normal matter is made of molecules, which are themselves made of atoms. Inside the atoms, electrons are spinning around the nucleus. The nucleus is made of protons and neutrons. Inside the protons and neutrons, exist indivisible quarks, like the electrons. All matter around us is made of elementary particles. ( building blocks of matter > quarks and leptons). All stable matter in the universe is made from particles that belong to the first-generation. Fundamental forces result from the exchange of force-carrier particles, which belong to a broader group called “bosons”. The strong force is carried by the “gluon”, electromagnetic force is carried by the “photon.” to the Superintendent and shall act according to his direction.
11. Chief Welfare Officer and Welfare Officer of correctional home. – (1) The State Government may, for each of the central correctional home, district correctional home and special correctional home, appoint such number of Chief Welfare Officers and Welfare Officers as it may consider necessary. The Chief Welfare Officer shall have the rank and status of the Superintendent of a district correctional home and the Welfare Officer shall have the rank and status of the Chief Controller of Correctional Services. The qualifications and the terms and conditions of service of the Chief Welfare Officers and the Welfare Officers shall be such as may be prescribed.
(2) It shall be the duty of the Welfare Officer-
(a) to look after the correctional services and to see that the prisoners are not deprived of the amenities and privileges under this Act or under any other lawLaw νόμος: Positive command of sovereign or divine. One can be ruled either by a Statute, a Statue, or a Statement. Legislation is the rule-making process by a political or religious organisation. Physics governs natural law. Logical thinking is a sign of a healthy brain function. Dharma is eternal for Sanatanis. Judiciary > Show me the face, and I will show you the law. Some people know how to bend the law rather than break it. Law Practice. Read a scholarly article for the time being in force;
(b) to organise and develop recreational, educational and cultural activities (including sports, games, physical culture and the like) amongst the prisoners;
(c) to give incentive to literary and artistic pursuits to the prisoners;
(d) to make efforts for betterment of educational, moralMorality Mental frame. It can be high morality or low morality, savage morality or civilised morality or Christian morality, or Nazi morality. Decent Behaviour is acceptable norms of the nations. Christian morality starts with the belief that all men are sinners and that repentance is the cause of divine mercy. Putting Crucified Christ in between is the destruction of Christian morality and logic. Now morality shifted to the personal choice of Jesus. What Jesus did is 'good'. The same would be the case of Ram, Krishna, Muhammad, Buddha, Lenin, etc. Pure Human Consciousness degraded to pure followership. There exists no proof the animals are devoid of morality., cultural and vocational equipments of the prisoners;
(e) to perform such other duties as may be prescribed.
12. Assistant Controller of Correctional Services. – For each subsidiary correctional home, there shall be appointed an Assistant Controller of Correctional Services who shall act as the Chief Officer of administration of the correctional home, subject to the control and superintendence of the Superintendent of the correctional home, and the provisions of sub-rules (2) and (3) of the rule 8 shall, mutatis mutandisMutatis mutandis It means "with necessary changes in the points of detail" or "with such change as may be necessary", apply to the Assistant Controller of Correctional Services.
13. Subordinate staff of correctional home. – The State Government shall appoint such number of subordinate staff with such designation as may be prescribed for efficient conduct of correctional homes. The duties and functions of such subordinate staff shall be such as may be prescribed.
14. Security staff of correctional home. – (1) For proper security of correctional homes and of the staff thereof and of the prisoners confined therein, there shall be the following categories of security staff in each correctional home :-
(i) one chief head warder;
(ii) one or more head warders as may be considered necessary having regard to the usual population of the home;
(iii) such number of gate warders as may be considered necessary;
(iv) such number of other warders as may be considered necessary.
(2) The gate warder shall guard the gate of the correctional home, open and close the gate according to necessity, and perform other consequential and incidental duties. He may at any time stop and search any person suspected of bringing any prohibited article into the correctional home or of carrying out any property belonging to the correctional home and shall report to the Chief Controller of Correctional Services about the discoveryDiscovery The process of gathering evidence in a lawsuit is known as discovery. This allows each side to get a better understanding of their position and develop strategies for the litigation. It also can promote the settlement process by revealing the strengths and weaknesses of the case. of such article or property.
(3) Any officer of the correctional home may, in the case of any suspicion about the entry into the correctional home of any prohibited article or about the carrying out any property belonging to the correctional home, stop and search or cause to be searched any person suspected or bringing such prohibited article or of carrying out such property and shall immediately report to the Chief Controller of Correctional Services about the discovery of such article or property.
(4) The uniform of the security staff shall be such as may be prescribed.
15. Night watchman, night guard and helper. – (1) The Superintendent of a correctional home may deploy any convict of good conduct and unblemished record during imprisonment, who has been sentenced for the first time to rigorous imprisonment for a term exceeding one year and has served fifty per cent, of the term of imprisonment, as a night watchman.
(2) There shall be deployed at least two night watchmen in each ward. One shall be on duty from the time of evening lock-up till 12 p.m. and the other shall be on duty from 12 P.M. till the lock-up is opened in the morning. A night watchman shall be entitled to patrol inside the ward to perform his duties and shall generally be entrusted with the task of-
(i) counting of prisoners under lock-up in the ward between the time of evening lock-up and opening the lock-up in the morning;
(ii) maintaining vigilance inside the ward in which he is placed on duty during night and seeing that nothing which is punishable or prohibited under any law for the time being in force is done inside the ward;
(iii) bringing to the notice of the warder on duty any culpable act which is likely to be committed but cannot be prevented by him.
(3) A prisoner deployed as a night watchman shall be entitled to three days’ remission in a month in addition to ordinary remission but shall not be entitled to any wages for working as a night watchman. He shall get his wages for his usual work during day time.
(4) The Superintendent of a correctional home may, with the prior approval of the Inspector General of Correctional Services, deploy any convict, who has maintained good conduct throughout his imprisonment having been sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for a term exceeding three years and has served seventy-five per cent, of his term of imprisonment, as a night guard. The night guard shall generally assist the security staff of the correctional home during night and shall wear blue badges for identification. The night guard may, if necessary, be posted outside the wards inside the correctional home to perform security duties. The night guard shall be entitled to five days’ special remission, in addition to the ordinary remission, per month. The convict deployed as a night guard shall not get any wages for performing security duties at night but shall be entitled to wages for his usual work during day time.
(5) The Superintendent of a correctional home may deploy a prisoner of good conduct whom he thinks to be trustworthy as a helper for carrying messages and doing sundry duties as may be given to him by the Superintendent. For such duty the helper shall be entitled to two days’ special remission, in addition to his ordinary remission, per month.
16. Officers and staff not to leave station without leave. – No officer or other staff of a correctional home shall leave station without obtaining leave from the Superintendent of the correctional home or from any other officer subordinate to the Superintendent and empowered to grant leave under the rules made under this Act.
17. Training of officers and staff. – The State Government may establish a training college for training of officers and all categories of staff of correctional homes. Until such college is established, the State Government may arrange in the prescribed manner for the training of the officers and staff of different correctional homes in any recognised institutions imparting such training.
