Act Info:Preamble 1 - KARNATAKA PRISONS ACT, 1963
Chapter I
Section 1 - Short title, extent and commencement
Section 2 - Definitions
Chapter II
Section 3 - Inspector-General
Section 4 - Officers of prisons
Section 5 - Accommodation for prisoners
Section 6 - Temporary accommodation
Chapter III
Section 7 - Control and duties of officers of prisons
Section 8 - Officers not to have business dealings with prisoners
Section 9 - Officers not to be interested in prison contracts
Section 10 - Superintendent
Section 11 - Records to be kept by Superintendent
Section 12 - Duties of Medical Officer
Section 13 - Medical Officer to report in certain cases
Section 14 - Report on the death of prisoner
Section 15 - Jailer
Section 16 - Jailer to give notice of death of prisoner
Section 17 - Responsibilities of Jailer
Section 18 - Jailer to be present at night
Section 19 - Powers of Deputy and Assistant Jailers
Section 20 - Duties of gatekeeper
Section 21 - Subordinate officers not to be absent without leave
Section 22 - Convict officers
Chapter IV
Section 23 - Prisoners to be examined on admission
Section 24 - Effects of prisoners
Section 25 - Removal and discharge of prisoners
Chapter V
Section 26 - Separation of prisoners
Section 27 - Association and segregation of prisoners
Section 28 - Solitary confinement
Section 29 - Prisoners under sentence of death
Chapter VI
Section 30 - Maintenance of certain prisoners from private sources
Section 31 - Restrictions on transfer of food and clothing between certain prisoners
Section 32 - Supply of clothing and bedding to civil and unconvicted criminal prisoners
Chapter VII
Section 33 - Employment of civil prisoners
Section 34 - Employment of criminal prisoners
Section 35 - Employment of criminal prisoners sentenced to simple imprisonment
Chapter VIII
Section 36 - Sick prisoners
Section 37 - Record of directions of Medical Officers
Section 38 - Hospital
Section 39 - Power of Superintendent to send a prisoner to hospital or asylum for special treatment
Chapter IX
Section 40 - Visitors to civil and unconvicted criminal prisoners
Section 41 - Search of visitors
Chapter X
Section 42 - Penalty for introduction or removal of prohibited articles, into or from prisons and communication with prisoners
Section 43 - Power to arrest for offence under section 42
Section 44 - Publication of penalties
Chapter XI
Section 45 - Prison offences
Section 46 - Punishment of offences under section 45
Section 47 - Plurality of punishment under section 46
Section 48 - Award for punishment under section 46 and section 47
Section 49 - Punishment for breach of conditions of suspension of sentence, etc
Section 50 - Punishment to be in accordance with the foregoing except by order of a competent court
Section 51 - Medical Officer to certify to fitness of prisoner for punishment
Section 52 - Entries in punishment books
Section 53 - Procedure on committal of heinous offence
Section 54 - Offences by prison subordinates
Chapter XII
Section 55 - Power to release certain prisoners temporarily
Section 56 - Release on parole
Section 57 - Prisoner to surrender himself on the expiration of the period otherwise liable to be arrested
Section 58 - Penalty for failure to surrender
Chapter XIII
Section 59 - Extra mural custody, control and employment of prisoners
Section 60 - Confinement in irons
Section 61 - Confinement in irons of prisoners under sentence of imprisonment for life
Section 62 - Prisoners not to be put in irons by Jailer except under necessity
Section 63 - Power to make rules
Section 64 - Rules and notifications to be laid before the State Legislature
Section 65 - Exhibition of copies of Rules
Section 66 - Exercise of powers of Superintendent and Medical officers
Section 67 - Repeal and savings
Section 68 - Removal of difficulties
Schedule I - FIRST SCHEDULE