the gate rooms at MCP and WCP were small with virtually no ventilation and unhygienic. An inmate describing the gate room at CRP said that even if the cell could hold only twenty people, they would put about thirty to forty people into it. He said, “you are trying to breathe, but you can’t.” Following the admission process, a prisoner is taken to the Record Room or RC Branch for registration, where according to Section 357 of the DSO, the ‘Prisons 8’ and ‘Prisons 111’ forms are to be completed. Form ‘Prisons 8’ has to be completed for prisoners sent to prison via courts, i.e. both remandees and convicted, and form ‘Prisons 111’ has to be completed in respect of prisoners admitted on transfer from another prison. Upon inquiry from the RC Branch at the WCP, it was found that in practice the ‘Prisons 8’ form is completed for all prisoners and officers were unaware of the ‘Prisons 111’ form. Instead, a document known as ‘memo’ is completed by the jailor of the prison from which the person is being transferred and sent to the jailor of the receiving prison. The ‘memo’ contains the names of the prisoners being transferred along with their personal files known as ‘prison dockets’. A copy of this memo is retained by the transferring prison. The documents necessary for admission to the Wataraka Youth Training School 23, an institution that is within the purview of the DOP, are different to those required by prisons since it is governed by the provisions of the Youthful Offenders (Training Schools) Ordinance No. 28 of 1939 (hereinafter referred to as YOTO) dealing with YOs i.e. offenders between sixteen and twenty-two years of age. Section 4(1) of the same legislation provides that, in certain circumstances, the court may order a person to be detained at a training school for three years if the court finds that the person is a youthful person, and that it is suitable to train and discipline him in such a training school due to his criminal habits or tendencies or association with persons with bad character. When the court makes such an order, the warrant of commitment, which is set out in Schedule 2 of the same Ordinance, will be furnished and ‘signed by the court’.24 Although Section 15725of the SRs requires every prisoner to be allowed to take a bath on admission, the impracticability of this section was brought to the Commission’s notice by the SP of KRP who stated that “the proper method is to check them from the gate and take them inside after allowing them to take a shower, but it is not practical”, since bathing facilities are usually found inside the prison premises or wards, and not at the entrance of the prison. The DSO26 provides that if prisoners are received into prison before 1400h they should be registered ‘immediately after their arrival’, and prisoners received after 1400h have to be registered no later than the following morning. Prisoners are not allocated a particular cell until the full admission process is completed, and will usually be kept in wards designated 23 For a detailed discussion on the living conditions of the Wataraka Youth Training School, please refer to chapter Young Offenders. 24 Youthful Offenders (Training Schools) Ordinance No. 28 of 1939, s 6. 25 SRs 1956, s 157, ‘Every prisoner shall take a bath on reception.’ 26 DSO 1956, s 357. 38