High security prisoners can be classified on the basis of factors like class of prisoners, criminal behavior, escape risk, requirement of gradation in custody, and educational and vocational needs and they can be categorized as below, namely:-- Category-I which shall include the under-trials, convicts and detenues involved in Fundamentalists, Naxalites, terrorist and extremist activities, violent and habitual criminals and those prisoners who have escaped earlier.
Category-II which shall include under-trials, convicts and detenues involved in murder, dacoity, robbery, rape, Gangsters and prisoners who are professional killers or organisers, drug peddlers, attackers on police and other dangerous offenders including those prone to self-harm or posing threat to public order including Violent and in-disciplined inmates and inmates who have an esape risk.
भाग 4 (ग) राजस्ााू राज-पत्र दिसम् बर 12 2022 566 Category-III which shall include prisoners involved in offences other than the offences referred to in category I and II and the first offenders in murder, dacoity or robbery and offenders who are not an escape risk.