(1) The Government shall establish a mechanism for the classification of prisoners to be housed in various types of institutions as enumerated above and shall lay down the procedure to be followed.
(2) The authorized population for each type of institution and norms with regard to area or space for prisoners as well as the number of prisoners to be housed shall be specified which may include facilities for education, vocational training, work programmes and cultural activities, library and recreation, both indoor and outdoor.
(3) It may also give specifications for the staff to be appointed in each type of institutions.
(4) Apart from various types of prisons for specific categories of prisoners, Government may create temporary prisons to deal with emergent situations.