ANTIGUA.

Corporal
punishment
in prisons.

4 Prison. No. 4 of 1955.

(2) A prisoner shall be deemed to be in legal
custody while he is confined in, or is being taken to
or from, any prison and while he is working, or is
for «any other reason, outside the prison’ in the
custody or under the control of an officer of the
prison.

11. (1) Except as provided by this section,
corporal punishment shall not be inflicted in any
prison.

(2) Rules made under section 27 of this
Ordinance may authorise the infliction of corporal
punishment for mutiny, incitement to mutiny, or
gross personal violence to an officer of a prison
when committed by a male prisoner.

(3) The rules shall not authorise the infliction
of corporal punishment except by order of the

visiting committee made at a meeting at which not

less than two thirds of the members are present;
and no such order shall be made except after an
inquiry in which the evidence is given on oath:

Provided that the Governor may, if he thinks
fit in any particular case, direct that the functions
exercisable as aforesaid by the visiting committee
shall be exercised by a magistrate appointed by him
in that behalf.

(4) The punishment which may be inflicted
under such an order ag aforesaid shall not exceed—

(a) in the case of a person appearing to
the visiting committee or magistrate to be not
less than twenty-one years of age, eighteen
strokes of a cat-o’-nine-tails or tamarind rod; or

(6) in the case of a person appearing to
them or him to be under that age, twelve
strokes of a tamarind rod,

and if corporal punishment is inflicted, no further
punishment by way of confinement in cells or
restricted diet shall be imposed.

(5) Where an order for the infliction of
corporal punishment has been made under this
section, a copy of the notes of the evidence given

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