Discipline and punishments inside prison
What this chapter covers
- Breaking the rules
What happens if you break prison rules, your right to be treated fairly, the powers of Hearing Adjudicators and Visiting Justices’, disciplinary hearings and the consequences of escaping rison - Use of force
When it’s legal to use force against you, the laws about batons, pepper spray and handcuffs and how to make a complaint if unfair force is used - Cell confinement and segregation
The laws that regulate cell confinement and segregation and your rights - Searches
When you can be searched, including strip searches and x-ray searches - Drug and alcohol testing
When you can be required to take a test - DNA testing (blood and other bodily samples)
Police powers to take DNA samples
