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(1) Every prisoner shall be given facilities of having rest and recreation for such period as may be prescribed. The types of recreation shall be as follows:— (a) educative recreations, namely reading of books, newspapers and periodicals, hearing of radio broadcasts, participation in or attending cultural performances, paintings and the like; (b) recreation for mental exercise, namely participation in or witnessing of indoor and outdoor games; (c) recreation pertaining to physical health, namely participation in outdoor games and different types of physical culture including yoga; (d) recreation for entertainments, namely, (i) community song with musical instruments such as madal and kartal in -respective wards or outside the wards with the approval of the Superintendent, (ii) folk dances and songs and other community entertainment on festival days and holidays, (iii) play of simple musical instruments by individual prisoner without disturbing others, (iv) dramatic performances in the form of jatra and theatre and variety entertainment programmes by prisoners on festival days and holidays, and (v) display of educative and entertaining films on different occasions with the assistance of the Information and Cultural Affairs Department of the State Government. (2) The State Government may appoint one or more physical instructors to look after the recreational facilities referred to in clause (c) of sub-section (1). The recreational facilities referred to in clauses (a), (b) and (d) shall be looked after by the Welfare Officer. (3) In every correctional home, there shall be a playground for outdoor games and a community hall for cultural programmes. (4) The implements for indoor and outdoor games and other recreations referred to in sub-section (1) shall be issued to and taken back from the prisoners in such manner as may be prescribed. The other recreations referred to in sub-section (1) shall be provided in such manner, as may be prescribed. Recreations. 275 The West Bengal Correctional Services Act, 1992. [West Ben. Act (Chapter XV.—Letters, interviews and interrogations.— Sections 50, 51.) CHAPTER XV Letters, interviews and interrogations Letters. 50. (1) Every Division I prisoner shall have the facility of writing such number of letters, being not less than one letter in a week, to his relatives and friends as may be prescribed. Every Division II prisoner shall have the facility of writing such number of letters, being not less than one letter in a month, to his relatives and friends as may be prescribed. Every prisoner under death sentence shall be entitled to write such number of letters to his friends and relatives as may be prescribed. Ordinary inland letter forms shall be supplied to Division I prisoners, political prisoners and detenus and plain paper and envelopes shall be supplied to Division II prisoners at Government cost. (2) Every political prisoner and every detenue may be allowed to write at his own cost letters in excess of the number fixed by rules made under this Act. (3) All letters shall be written in Bengali or Hindi or English or mother tongue of concerned prisoner. (4) The Superintendent shall examine every letter written by a prisoner and may ask the prisoner concerned to delete any portion of the letter which, in his opinion, is likely to endanger the security of the correctional home or contains false information about the affairs of the correctional home. (5) The Superintendent shall examine every letter sent to any prisoner from outside and delete any portion thereof which, in his opinion, is likely to endanger the security of the correctional home or contains false information about the affairs of the correctional home, before it is delivered to the prisoner. (6) Notwithstanding anything contained in the foregoing provisions of this section the Superintendent shall not censor any letter written by any prisoner to the Inspector General of Correctional Services or to any Minister of the State Government or to a Member of Parliament or of the State Legislature or to the Speaker of the Loke Sabha or to the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha or to the Speaker of the State Legislature, and such letters shall not be taken into account while computing the number of letters admissible under the rules made under this Act. Interviews.