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Prisons Act 1933 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 7 · Discipline and Prison Offences
78. Prosecution for offences
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prisoner
Defined · s 2
“prisoner” means any person, whether convicted or not, under detention in any prison or reformative training centre or subject to an external placement order or a home detention order, but does not include a person released and at large under a remission order;