Prison Act 1995 · Updated to 12 Dec 2025 · Part V · Employment and Prison Discipline
49. Segregation of prisoners
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prisoner
“prisoner” means a person, whether convicted or not, under confinement in a prison and in relation to a convicted prisoner, includes a prisoner released on parole;
confined under civil process;
on remand charged with a crime or an offence;
committed to take his trial; or
confined for want of sureties,
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shall not ordinarily be associated with prisoners serving their sentences of imprisonment or be required to labour beyond such labour as is reasonably proper for keeping his person and dress in a proper state and keeping the place in which he is confined clean.
Where a prisoner under subsection (1) elects to be employed during the period he is confined, he shall receive payment for the employment at such rates as may, from time to time, be prescribed.
prescribed
“prescribed” means prescribed by or under this Act and where the authority is not specified, by the Minister;
A young prisoner shall, so far as local conditions permit, be kept apart from adults under detention.
young prisoner
“young prisoner” means a prisoner who is below twenty-one years of age;
Where it appears to the Officer in Charge that it is desirable for the good order and discipline of a prison or for any other reason that a prisoner be segregated, it shall be lawful for the officer to order the segregation of the prisoner for such period as he may consider necessary.
Officer in Charge
“Officer in Charge” means a prison officer not below the rank of Assistant Commissioner of Prison who is in charge of a prison; *NOTE—All references to the Director General of Prison and Deputy Director General of Prison in any written law or in any instrument, deed, title, document, bond, agreement and working arrangement subsisting immediately before the date of the coming into operation of this Prison Act (Amendment) 2008, shall, on the date of the coming into operation…