Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
(1) In every central correctional hoine and district correctional Library. home, there shall be established a library for the use of the prisoners of different education standards for satisfaction of intellectual hunger or development of knowledge, as the case may be. The library shall be equipped with such books, magazines and newspapers and they shall be issued to the prisoners in such manner as may be prescribed. (2) The Superintendent may allow the prisoners to purchase newspapers and magazines from their personal cash or to receive newspapers and magazines supplied by their friends or relatives from outside, provided that no such newspapers or magazines shall contain any matter encouraging unsocial activity or tending to make readers victims of moral depravation. Explanation.—For the purposes of this sub-section, criticism of Government or Governmental measures shall not be deemed to encourage unsocial activity. (3) The State Government shall appoint a Selection Committee consisting of the following persons for selection of books, magazines and newspapers to be purchased by different correctional homes:— (i) the Inspector General of Correctional Services — Chairman; (ii) the Joint Secretary to the Government of West Bengal, Home (Jails) Member- Department — Secretary; (ii) the Chief Officer of South 24-Parganas. District Library — Member; (iv) two persons conversant with selection of books, to be nominated by the State Government Members. 269 The West Bengal Correctional Services Act, 1992. [West Ben. Act (Chapter X11.—Hygienic and sanitary arrangements.—Section 37.) CHAPTER XII Hygienic and sanitary arrangements Hygienic and sanitary measures.