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Employment of criminal prisoners sentenced to simple imprisonment.— The Superintendent shall make provision for the employment of all criminal prisoners sentenced to simple imprisonment if and as long as they so desire: Provided that no prisoner not sentenced to rigorous imprisonment shall be punished for neglect of work but such prisoner may be punished in cases of neglect of work by such alterations in the scale of diet as may be prescribed. CHAPTER VIII HEALTH OF PRISONERS