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In this Act- (1) "Prison" means any jail or place used permanently or temporarily under the general or special orders of Government for the detention of prisoners, and includes all lands and buildings appurtenant thereto, but does not include- (a) any place for the confinement of prisoners who are exclusively in the custody of the police. (b) any place specially appointed by Government under the provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure for the time being in force. (c) any place which has been declared by Government by general or special order, to be a subsidiary jail. (2) "Criminal prisoner" means any prisoner duly committed to custody under the writ, warrant, or order of any Court or authority exercising criminal jurisdiction or by order of a Court Martial. (3) "Convicted criminal prisoner" means any criminal prisoner under sentence of a Court, and includes a person detained in prison under the provisions of Chapter VIII of the Travancore or Cochin Code of Criminal Procedure. (4) "Civil Prisoner" means any prisoner who is not a criminal prisoner. (5) "Remission system" means the rules for the time being in force regulating the award of Marks to, and the consequent shortening of sentence's of prisoners in jails. (6) "History-ticket" means the ticket exhibiting such information as is required in respect of each prisoner buy this Act or the rules thereunder. (7) "Inspector-General" means the "Inspector-General" of Prisons. (8) "Medical subordinate" means an Assistant Surgeon or Sub-Assistant Surgeon. (9) "Prohibited articles" means an article the introduction or removal of which into or out of a prison is prohibited by any rule under this Act.