Last Updated: 23 November 2022

[CS 11,115] Prison offences13 

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(1) Any breach by a prisoner of—
  • (a)any provision of the Act, any regulation made under the Act or the Commissioners Orders; or
  • (b)any lawful direction given to the prisoner by a corrections officer,

shall be a prison offence.

(2) Without limiting the generality of subregulation (1), a prisoner commits a prison offence if he or she—
  • (a)participates in any mutiny or riot by prisoners, or incites any prisoner to mutiny or riot;
  • (b)commits any assault or act of violence to any prisoner, corrections officer, visitor to a prison or any other person within a prison;
  • (c)escapes, conspires to escape or assists with or procures the escape by any prisoner from lawful custody;
  • (d)possesses any instrument or other thing for the purpose of procuring any escape;
  • (e)fails or refuses to assist any corrections officer to prevent an escape;
  • (f)quarrels with any prisoner, or uses offensive or insulting language to a prisoner;
  • (g)malingers or wilfully injures himself or herself;
  • (h)makes any communication with a prisoner in disobedience of any regulation, order or direction;
  • (i)does any act calculated to create any unnecessary alarm among prisoners or corrections officers;
  • (j)fails or refuses to wear the issued clothing;
  • (k)exchanges, loses, discards, damages, alters or defaces any issued clothing or other issued property;
  • (l)commits any nuisance within any part of the prison or while on work detail;
  • (m)treats with disrespect any corrections officer or any person authorised to visit the prison, or any person employed in connection with the prison;
  • (n)is idle, careless, negligent at work or refuses to work;
  • (o)leaves the allocated cell, ward or place of work or any other place where the prisoner is directed to be, without permission;
  • (p)receives or has in his or her possession any prohibited article, or attempts to obtain any prohibited article;
  • (q)disfigures, damages, steals or interferes with any part of fitting of a prison, or any property not belonging to the prisoner;
  • (r)behaves in an immoral, disorderly or indecent manner;
  • (s)uses any abusive, threatening, insolent, indecent or other inappropriate language;
  • (t)makes any false accusation against a corrections officer or other prisoner;
  • (u)commits any act of gross misconduct or insubordination;
  • (v)breaches any condition applying to his or her early or short term release, or fails to return to prison immediately upon the expiration of any term of short term release;
  • (w)attempts to commit, or aids or abets the commission of any prison offence; or
  • (x)is guilty of any other act, conduct, disorder or neglect to the prejudice of the good order and discipline within the prison.