Bare Act
Uttarakhand Prisons and Correctional Servies Act, 2024
Criminal202469 sections
This Act establishes the legal framework for managing prisons and correctional services across the entire state of Uttarakhand. It applies to all individuals detained in custody, including convicts, civil prisoners, and foreign nationals, while also defining the roles of prison officers and staff. The legislation is designed to ensure the safe custody of prisoners and to provide necessary correctional services such as assessment, treatment, and training. By regulating these services, the Act aims to facilitate the rehabilitation of inmates and their reintegration into society as responsible citizens after their release.
- 1. Short Title, extent and commencement
- 2. Definitions
- 4. Accommodation for Prisoners
- 6. Categories of Prison Administration and Correctional Service Institutions
- 7. Temporary accommodation for prisoners
- 8. Headquarters of Prisons and Correctional Services
- 9. Head of Prison Administration & Correctional Services
- 10. Other officers of prisons
- 11. Recruitment and Training
- 12. Functions and duties of officer-in-charge
- 13. Medical Officer
- 14. Duties of other prison officers and staff
- 15. Exercise of powers of officer-in-charge and Medical Officer in their absence
- 16. Prison officers and staff not to have business dealings with prisoners and interest in prison contracts
- 17. Staff welfare
- 18. Use of Technology in prison administration
- 19. Admission of prisoners
- 20. Transfer of a prisoner to other State
- 21. Prisoners to be searched and examined on admission, exit and re-entry
- 22. Search of Prisoners
- 23. Articles of prisoners
- 24. Admission, transfer and repatriation of foreigner prisoners
- 25. Composition of classification and security Assessment Committee
- 26. Grounds of classification and categories
- 27. Taking appropriate measures against criminal activities of prisoners
- 28. Special provisions for security, intelligence gathering, surveillance and rotation or prison staff on duty
- 29. Use of electronic monitoring devices on prisoners
- 30. Separate accommodation for women prisoners
- 31. Pregnant Women Prisoners
- 32. Women prisoners with children
- 33. Inquiry into complaints of sexual harassment
- 34. Prison Regimen for Transgender prisoners
- 35. Safe custody and security of prisoners
- 36. Visiting to prisoners
- 37. Search of visitors and prison officers and staff
- 38. Discipline in prisons
- 39. Prison offences
- 40. Punishment for Prison Offences
- 41. Punishment for possessing or using mobile phones and other contraband
- 42. Procedure on repeated committal of a prison offence
- 43. Display of prison offences and penalties
- 44. Prisoners' Health care
- 45. Mental health, psychological assessment and treatment
- 46. Vocational Training, Skill Development, Education and Recreation facilities
- 47. Establishment of Canteens and Sales Outlets
- 48. Sentence planning
- 49. Work programme and wages
- 50. Open and semi open Correctional Institutions
- 51. Parole and Furlough
- 52. Remission to prisoners
- 53. Pre-mature release
- 54. Inspection of Prisons
- 55. After-Care and Rehabilitation Services
- 56. Legal Aid
- 57. Constitution of Under Trial Review Committee for every district
- 58. Report on the death of a prisoner
- 59. Grievance Redressal Mechanism
- 60. Utilisation of services of prisoners
- 61. Prohibition of strike and agitation
- 62. Emergency Extramural Custody, control and employment of prisoners
- 63. Extramural Custody
- 64. Prison Development Board
- 65. Delegation of Powers
- 66. Accounts and Audit
- 67. Protection of action taken in good faith
- 68. Powers of the Government to make rules
- 69. Repeal and saving
- 70. Power to remove difficulties
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