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Section 33

The Assam Prisons Act, 2013State Act of Assam · Act 15 of 2013

(1) As soon as possible after the admission of a person in prison, the Superintendent shall send intimation to his family or nearest relative about his admission in the prison, unless the period for which the person is committed to prison is so short that such intimation cannot be reasonably expected to reach his family or nearest relative before the date on which he is due to be discharged from prison.

(2) The Superintendent shall send immediate intimation to the family or nearest relative of an inmate upon transfer of the inmate from the prison or upon serious illness, serious injury or death of the inmate in the prison.

1380 THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 30, 2013 Accommo­ dation of inmates

34. Subject to the following requirements, the inmates may be accommodated either in association or individually in cells or rooms or partly in one way and partly in the o ther:—

(a) female and male inmates shall be kept in separate enclosures, or, where it is not possible, be kept in separate buildings or separate parts of the same building in such a manner as to seclude the female inmates from communication with, and sight of, the male inmates;

(b) adolescent male inmates shall be kept apart from adult male inmates;

(c) undertrial inmates shall be kept apart from convicted inmates;

(d) detenus and civil inmates shall be kept apart from convicted and undertrial inmates;

(e) inmates of unsound mind shall be kept apart i L from other inmates.

(f) inmates belongs to extremist, terrorist and the criminals dangerous in nature and unsoundmind shall be kept apart from other inmates.

Inmate under sentence of death

35. An inmate whose sentence of death becomes final, conclusive and executable without any further scope of annulment by any judicial or constitutional procedure shall be confined in a cell or room apart from other inmates and shall be placed by day and night under the watch of an officer of the prison, but shall not be secluded from communication with, and sight of, other inmates, or, unless special circumstances exist, be debarred from having his meals in association of one or more other inmates.

> THE ASSAM GAZETTE, EXTRAORDINARY, MAY 30, 2013 1381 Inmate under separate confine-* ment

36. The cell or room used for keeping an inmate under separate confinement as a punishment for prison offence or for any other reason shall be furnished with the meansof enabling the inmate to communicate at any time with an officer of the prison and the inmate shall be visited at least once a day by the Medical Officer.

Measure of restraint

Where this provision sits

ActThe Assam Prisons Act, 2013
Section33
JurisdictionState of Assam
StatusIn force as published by the source

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