# The Young Offender Institution Rules 1988, Article 50: Offences against discipline


An inmate shall be guilty of an offence against discipline if he–
(1) mutinies or incites another inmate to mutiny;
(2) does gross personal violence to an officer;
(3) does gross personal violence to any person not being an officer;
(4) commits any assault;
(5) absconds from a young offender institution or from legal custody;
(6) absents himself without permission from any place where he is required to be, whether within or outside a young offender institution;
(7) has in his possession or in his cell or room any unauthorised article, or attempts to obtain such an article;
(8) delivers to or receives from any person any unauthorised article;
(9) sells or delivers to any person, without permission, anything he is allowed to have only for his own use;
(10) takes improperly or is in unauthorised possession of any article belonging to another person or to a young offender institution;
(11) wilfully damages or disfigures any part of the institution or any property not his own;
(12) makes any false and malicious allegation against an officer;
(13) treats with disrespect an officer or any person visiting a young offender institution;
(14) uses any abusive, insolent, threatening or other improper language;
(15) is indecent in language, act or gesture;
(16) repeatedly makes groundless complaints;
(17) is idle, careless or negligent at work or refuses to work;
(18) disobeys any lawful order or refuses or neglects to conform to any rule or regulation of the institution;
(19) attempts to do any of the foregoing things;
(20) in any way offends against good order and discipline; or
(21) does not return to a young offender institution when he should have returned after being temporarily released under rule 6 of these Rules, or does not comply with any condition upon which he was so released.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/1422/article/50 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/young-offender-institution-rules-1988/article-50
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