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The Prisons Act, 1894

( ACT NO. IX OF 1894 )

Chapter VII

EMPLOYMENT OF PRISONERS

Employment of criminal prisoners sentenced to simple imprisonment
36. 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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