Polynesian. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu], Hawaii) 1844-1864, 1851-09-06
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AN ACT

| AN ACT
RELATING TO PRISONS, THEIR GOVERNMENT. AND
| DISCIPLINE
WHEREAS the prisons of the Kingdom are
wholly inadequate to the safe keeping OF
| Prisoners, regulated by no system, and go
verned by no discipline, disorderlv, and
promotive of immortality rather than re-
| form:
| Therefore
4 Bed enacted by the MOBILES and Representatives.
Of the Hawaiian Islands, IN Legislative
Council Assembled:
SECTION l. The minister of the Interior
through his clerk of the Bureau of Internal
Improvements shall cause to be erected, with
the least possible delay. suitable jails, with
convenient yards, workshops and suitable
Accommodations, adjoining or appurtenances
thereto, for the safe keeping, correcting,
governing, and employing of all persons duly
committed to such jails for any cause autho-
rized by law.
SECTION 2. The jails shall be erected in
such central and convenient positions on the
several Islands, as may be approved of by
the Minister of the Interior, as follows, viz
One on the Island of Kauai,
One on the Island of Oahu,
| One on the Island of Maui,
Two on the Island of Hawaii,
In addition to the above Island jails, there
shall be erected iailip Honolulu and ano-
ther in Lahaina, for the temporary detention
of persons in said districts committed for tri-
al, or for disturbance of Ahe public peace,
or for contempt of any court, witnesses de-
tanned in order to secure their attendance on
criminal trials, deserting sailors, and all
other persons sentenced to Imprisonment for
not more than sixty days.
| SECTION g. The jails shall be so construc-
ted as to keep entirely seperate from each
other the male and female prisoners; and
also in such manner as to promote the
health and cleanliness Of those imprisoned
therein.
SECTION 4. The yards Of the Island jails
shall be of sufficient extent for the conve-
nient employment of those confined therein,
and shall be enclosed by fences of sufficient
height and strength to prevent escapes and
also to prevent all access to, or communi-
cation with, any persons confined therein, by
persons without.
| Or THE OFFICERS OF THE JAILs.
| SECTION 5. The minister of the Interior
with the approval Of the King in Privy Coun-
cil shall appoint a suitable person TO be mas
ter of each Jail, to hold his Office during the
pleasure of said Minister.
SEcffoN g. Each Of the said masters
shall reside in the prison over which he pre-.
sides.
SECTION Z. Each of them shall visit every
| nd
under his charge at least once in every day
SECTION S.sThey shall each keep jour
nal, in which shall be regularly entered the
reception, discharge, death, pardon, or es-
cape Of any prisoner; and also, all punish
ments that are inflicted for the breach o.
prison discipline, as they occur, and all other
occurrences of note that concern the state
of the prison.
SECTION 8. On the commitment of any
prisoner, there shall be entered on the jour-
nal, the sex, age, height, personal descrip-
tion. last place of abode, and place of his
nativity of the prisoner.
| SEcTION 10. Each master shall keep an
exact account of all the receipts and expen-
ditures of his prison, and make a quarterly
report of the same to the Minister of the In
terror.
| SECTION IL. The masters may appoint
assistants and dismiss them at pleasure.
| SECTION II. Each master shall put up in
every cell and apartment Of the prison under
his care, copy of the rules for the govern
ment thereof and shall cause them to be ex-
plaiped T., those who cannot read, or under
stand them.
| SECTION 49, No master shall absent him.
self from the prison under his charge for a
NIGHT. unless in the execution of some duty
that requires such absence, or by reason ol
some unforeseen accident which renders II
necessary; and such absences with the rea-
sons shall be noted on the journal.
/ SECTION a. The master Of each jan
shall see that the same is constantly kept N
as cleanly and healthful condition as may
be. and shall cause the whole interior there
lof. including the floors, to be. thoroughly
whitewashed with lime, at least four times n
leach year.
SECTION Is. Such masters shall see thai
strict attention is constantly paid TO the per
sonal cleanliness Of all the prisoners in theil
j custody. as Gar az may be, and shall causl
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