Institutional Personnel
Institutional Personnel
Institutional Personnel under Model Prison Manual
Duties and Function of Institutional Personnel
Institutional Personnel
Institutional Personnel
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Institutional Personnel
Institutional Personnel
Institutional Personnel under Model Prison Manual
INSTITUTIONAL PERSONNEL
Institutional Personnel
[4.01.] Each institution will have personnel in accordance with the requirements of security, discipline and programme emphasis. The personnel strength will be determined according to the duty posts, taking hours of duty per day as the basis for each category of staff. The institutional set-up will be fixed in accordance with the size of the institution, the inmate population, workload and distribution of functions.
The strength of custodial/guarding staff will be determined keeping in view the requirements of security, discipline, programme emphasis, duty posts, workload and distribution of functions. In principle there has to be one guarding staff for every six prisoners.
Institutional personnel will comprise of:
1. Executive
- Superintendents
- Additional Superintendent
- Deputy Superintendents
- Assistant Superintendents
- Guarding staff – Chief Head Warders – Head Warders – Warders
2. Medical personnel
- Medical Officers
- Psychiatrist
- Nursing staff
- Pharmacist
3. Welfare Units
- Assistant Director, Correctional Services
- Welfare Officer
- Law Officer
- Counsellor
- Probation Officer
- Psychologist
4. Educational Personnel
- Teachers
- Physical Training Instructor
5. Technical Personnel
- Instructors
- Foremen
- Electricians
- Plumbers
- Mason
- Drivers
- Motor Mechanic
6. Agricultural
- Supervisors
- Agricultural Assistants
7. Ministerial
- Administrative Officer
- Office Superintendent
- Accountant
- Store Keepers
- Cashier
- Office Assistants
- Stenographers
- Typist/Computer Operators
- Miscellaneous Staff
Duties and Functions of Institutional Personnel:
The general duties, functions and responsibilities of the institutional personnel are detailed below:
The Superintendent will be the head of the prison and all officers will be subordinate to him.
Superintendent Grade I and Grade II
- General supervision over security and custody arrangements
- Custody of secret and confidential documents
- Supervision over care and welfare of inmates
- Supervision over office administration
- Control over financial matters
Additional/Deputy Superintendent
In the absence of a Superintendent of prisons, he will perform all the functions attached to the post of a Superintendent.
- Admission and release of prisoners after verification and checking of committal warrants
- Checking of Appeal Registers
- Attending to release on bail, appeals, fine payment, etc.
- Attending to the correction of sentences
- Production of prisoners in courts
Deputy Superintendent
- The Deputy Superintendent is the chief executive officer of the Prison and is subordinate to the Superintendent.
- Supervision over security, custody, and discipline, supervision over care and welfare of prisoners
- Supervision over personnel matters, staff discipline, and staff welfare assisting the Superintendent in all matters about institutional management
- Inspecting kitchen and canteen visit to hospital
- Admission and release work prison manufacturers
- Classification of prisoners and their training
Assistant Superintendent
(i) To assist the Deputy Superintendent in studying the psychological and mental makeup of prisoners and taking steps to reform them.
(ii) To be in charge of the ration stores as generally stated.
(iii) To be directly responsible for the storing and custody of ration and other articles purchased and their issue from
the stores.
(iv) To place indents and get supplies of all articles of diet and articles required for the prisoners.
(v) To attend to the day-to-day maintenance of stock registers and other connected records and to the proper
maintenance of stock.
(vi) To attend to the maintenance of accounts for extra articles purchased by civil debtors.
(vii) To check the correctness of the kitchen slips, hospital indents and other indents placed on him for the issue of
ration and miscellaneous articles.
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