Prisons Offences

The following acts are declared as prison offences, when committed by a prisoner, namely,-

1. (a) Willful disobedience of any rule or regulation of the prison, as prescribed under this Act or under the rules made thereunder;
2. (b) Any assault or use of force on anyone;
3. (c) Deliberate and persistent use of insulting or threatening language;
4. (d) Immoral or indecent or disorderly behaviour;
5. (e) Willfully disabling himself from labour;
6. (f) Continuously refusing to work if the prisoner has been punished with rigorous imprisonment;
7. (g) Willful idleness or negligence at work by any convict prisoner sentenced to rigorous imprisonment;
8. (h) Willful mismanagement of work by any convict prisoner sentenced to rigorous imprisonment;
   • (i) Willful damage to prison property;
9. (j) Tampering with or defecting history tickets, records or documents maintained in physical or electronic form;
10. (k) Receiving, possessing or transferring any prohibited article;
11. (l) Willfully making a false accusation against any prison official;
12. (m) Omitting or refusing to report, as soon as it comes to his knowledge, the occurrence of any fire, any plot or conspiracy, any attempt to escape or preparation to escape or attack on any prisoner or any other person or prison official;
13. (n) Escape or attempt to escape, conspiring to escape, or to assist in escaping;
14. (o) Unauthorized use or possession of wireless communication devices and /or their ancillary components;
15. (p) Trespassing in or loitering about in the prison premises where entry may not be allowed;
16. (q) Unauthorized communication with any person outside prison;
17. (r) Pretending to be a prison official or employee of the Department; Smuggling or attempting to smuggle or to have in possession any prohibited article in the prison;
18. (t) Intimidating fellow prisoners into making false representation against the prison officials;
19. (u) Participating in or inciting mass hunger strike or any other act of defiance or indiscipline;
    • (v) Sexual harassment or sodomy;
20. (w) Participating in, or organizing any anti-social activities as prescribed by rules;
    • (x) Aiding or abetting the commission of any aforesaid offences;
21. (y) Such other offences as prescribed in the rules from time to time.