(1)Prisoners shall -(a)obey the orders of all officers of prison staff (including clerks, medical and technical staff);(b)remain strictly with their groups and within the part of the jail in which they are confined, unless ordered by proper authorities to leave it, keep in file when not at work and strictly carry out the regular parades;(c)abstain from talking when at file or at unlocking or at latrine, bathing or other parades, or at any time when ordered by an officer of the prison to desist; also abstain from abuse, singing, quarrelling, loud laughing, loud talking and indecent behaviour at any time;(d)nor hold any communication with outsiders, women, civil or under-trial prisoners or prisoners of a different class from their own or with the guards beyond what is absolutely necessary;(e)not receive or possess ganja or other drugs or money or jewellery, or mobile phone or any article of food or clothing prohibited by the rules; or books, papers, or writing materials of any description unless specially authorised by the Assistant Superintendent or Jailor, or rope or any knife, or other implement (except during working hours and when the implement is required for their work), and, where they find any of these articles or know any other prisoner having any such article, report the matter to the Assistant Superintendent or Jailor;(f)report any plot of conspiracy, and any attempt to escape or preparation for an escape, or for an attack upon any prisoner or officer of prison;(g)help the officers of prison incase of any attack upon them;(h)keep their clothes, blankets, beddings, and utensils clean and in proper order;(i)keep their persons clean;(j)perform their allotted tasks willingly and carefully and take proper care of any property of Government entrusted to them for the purpose;(k)be orderly in their behaviour, march two and two when they move about the prison, when addressing or addressed by an officer of the prison or visitor, stand at attention with their hands down, and salute when ordered;(l)not remove provisions from the kitchen or feeding platforms without authority, or conceal any article of food in the wards or cells;(m)not remove any unconsumed food from the place where the meal is taken;(n)keep to the bed, the ward, the yard, and the seat at meals or at work, which have been assigned to them;(o)not loiter about the yards or in the wards after the doors have been opened, or bathe or visit the latrine out of hours;(p)not commit any nuisance or urinate in any part of the prison, which has not been assigned for that purpose, or dirty or injure any part of the prison or any article in the prison in any way;(q)show respect to all officers, not strike, assault or threaten any officer or any prisoner;(r)not gamble or barter or play any game (unless specially permitted by the Superintendent) within the prison; nor keep animals, birds or other pets;(s)wear the clothing given to them and not exchange it or any part of their prison kit for that of any other prisoner.Note. - All privileges such as interviews, letters, and facilities for reading, shall be contingent on the good behaviour of a prisoner in the prison and the Superintendent may withdraw or postpone privileges of an individual prisoner for unsatisfactory conduct.
