... the Prison Rules 1999 addresses work for prisoners and defines provision for prisoners as follows: (1) A convicted prisoner shall be required to do useful work for not more than 10hours a day, and arrangements shall be made to allow prisoners to work, where possible, outside the cells and in association with one another. (2) The medical officer or a medical practitioner such as is mentioned in rule 20(3) may excuse a prisoner from work on medical grounds, and no prisoner shall be set to do work which is not of a class for which he has been passed by the medical officer or by a medical practitioner such as is mentioned in rule 20(3) as being fit (3) No prisoner shall be set to do work of a kind not authorised by the Secretary of State. (4) No prisoner shall work in the service of another prisoner or an officer, or for the private benefit of any ...

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