P.R. Laws tit. 4, § 1255
The Administrator shall see to the faithful compliance of the following standards, in addition to the standards, rules and regulations it promulgates:
(a) The member of the correctional population shall receive a respectful and humanitarian treatment with a view to propitiate his/her rehabilitation and to expedite his/her return to the free community as a useful and reliable citizen.
(b) Abuse and corporal punishment are prohibited.
(c) The member of the correctional population shall be permitted all type of communication compatible with his/her security and that of other members of the correctional population, tends to ensure his/her welfare, particularly in all that concerns having due access to the courts, maintaining family ties, and presenting their complaints to the officers who must receive them.
(d) Female members of the correctional population shall be confined separately from the facilities used for male members of the correctional population.
(e) Every member of the correctional population shall be entitled to participate in rehabilitation, treatment, study or work programs compatible with his/her process for reintegration into society, subject to the provisions of the new Penal Code of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and the Constitutional Rehabilitation Mandate Act.
(f) No minors adjudged as adults may be confined in institutions used for the confinement of adults, except when the confinement takes place in a room or hall entirely separate from the adults therein confined.
(g) Any member of the correctional population shall be sent to the penal institution closest to the geographic location of his/her family unit; provided that his/her institutional plan is not affected and that there is space available at the referred facility.
History —July 22, 1974, No. 116, Part 1, p. 501, § 50; July 18, 2001, No. 60, § 28; Sept. 15, 2004, No. 315, § 7; Oct. 26, 2009, No. 130, § 1.