Accommodation for Prisoners

The Government shall provide sufficient number of prisons administration and correctional services institutions in the State for accommodating the prisoners, which may be constructed and maintained in such manner so as to comply with the requirements of this Act. (1) The pattern of construction of a prison, ground space, ventilation, sanitation, hygiene and other allied requirements of the prison shall conform to such standards and requirements, as may be prescribed by the rules. (2) The standards of security for each prison shall be such as may be prescribed by the rules. (3) Prisons may be designed in such a manner so as to facilitate segregation of various categories of prisoners and for attending to special needs of prisoners, such as women/transgender/ drug addicts/ persons with disabilities/persons suffering from contagious disease or mental illness or old and infirm prisoners, under trial prisoners, convicted prisoners, high security prisoners, habitual/recidivist prisoners, young offenders, Civil prisoners, detenues etc, as may be prescribed by the rules. (4) The setup of prisons administration and correctional service institutions may include accommodation and other facilities for the prison officers and staff as per functional requirement. (5) Wherever there is no provision of a stand-alone High Security Prison in the State, high risk offenders, hardened criminals and habitual offenders shall be segregated and lodged in separate barracks or cells of the prison, which shall have a provision of keeping them away from mingling with other prison inmates, young offenders, first time offenders, etc. (6) Such separate accommodation as referred to in sub-section (5) shall have appropriate advanced architecture, design and institutional pattern, as prescribed by the rules, for keeping inmates in safe and secure custody.