259. Procedure when passing into or out of the jail.
- When prisoners have to be passed into or out of jail with double gates, the following procedure shall be followed :-(1)On passing prisoners out, the gate-keeper shall first let them through the inner wicket and having locked it, shall write in full in the register provided for the purpose, the names of all the prisoners, the head warder/warder in charge, and the warder assisting them. He shall then open the wicket in the outer gate and count the prisoners as they pass out, to verify the total.(2)The list of the gang having once been made in the gate register need not be written on each occasion of its passage through the main gate, but every change in the gang must be noted and attested by the signature or seal of the warder in charge, as well as by that of the gate-keeper, who shall at once report to the Deputy Superintendent the circumstances.(3)On a gang returning to the entrance from outside, the gate- keeper shall open the outer wicket (the inner one being locked first) and admit the gang to the passage between the gates. He shall then lock the Outer wicket and call out the name of each prisoner and warder as recorded in the register. The gang having been found correct, he shall open the inner wicket and count the prisoners as they pass into the jail, to verify the total number.(4)The gate-keeper shall not allow any prisoner to be taken out of the jail who is not in charge of a guard of the proper strength duly authorized to take him outside.
