Singapore legislation
Section 70
Section 70
Punishment by Superintendent for minor prison offences
(1)
The Superintendent may punish any prisoner found after due inquiry to be guilty of a minor prison offence as specified in section 72 with one or more of the following punishments:
confinement in a punishment cell for a term not exceeding 7 days;
forfeiture of remission not exceeding such amount as may be prescribed;
reduction in grade or postponement of promotion for such period as may be prescribed;
a written warning;
in the case of a prisoner subject to a home detention order under section 52, extension of the hours to which the prisoner is required to remain indoors under the conditions of the order.
(2)
The Superintendent must enter in a register to be open to the inspection of the Visiting Justices a record of the punishments imposed by the Superintendent upon prisoners, showing, in respect of each prisoner punished, the name of the prisoner, the nature of the prisoner’s offence and the extent of his or her punishment.