(a) The Director of the Bureau of Corrections is charged with the direction, management, maintenance and discipline of all prisons and jails in the Virgin Islands, and with the safe-keeping and activities of all persons confined in them. He shall be in charge of all property belonging to the prisons or jails.
(b) The Director of the Bureau of Corrections shall receive and confine, or cause to be received and confined, all persons charged with, or convicted of, an offense against the laws in force, in accordance with the terms of an order duly issued by a competent authority, and he shall safely keep such persons until discharged by due course of law.
(c) The Director of the Bureau of Corrections shall have photographed and fingerprinted all persons convicted of a felony.