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(1) The State Government shall establish one or more open correctional home with a view to grant more freedom to prisoners so as to avail themselves to adapt to community life after release from the correctional home, and the other provisions of this Act, not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, shall apply to such open correctional homes. (2) The open correctional homes established under sub-section (1) shall be classified as 'A' type 'B' type and 'C' type correctional homes in accordance with the provisions of sub-section (3). In A and B type open correctional homes the night lock-up shall be completed after proper counting at 8 p.m. and shall be opened at such hours as may be prescribed. In C type open correctional homes, there shall not be any night lock-up. There shall not also be any day lock-up except in a case where any prisoner violates the rules made under this Act and is found uncontrollable. (3) The classification of open correctional homes as 'A' type, `13' type or 'C' type shall be made in such manner as may be prescribed. (4) Every.prisoner accommodated in an open correctional home shall be entitled to remission as admissible under sections 58 and 59. (5) The Superintendent may allow such visitors to an open correctional home for the purpose of learning the process of rehabilitation of convicted prisoners as may be prescribed. (6) Any police-officer of or above the rank of Sub-Inspector of Police in the Criminal Investigation Department may visit any open correctional home to keep track of the prisoners after their released from the open correctional home and to protect them from the hardened criminals outside. 306 The West Bengal Correctional Services Act, 1992. XXXII of 1992.] (Chapter XXVIII—Open correctional homes.—Sections 89, 90.)