Daijiworld Media Network-Mangaluru (SB)
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Mangaluru, May 3: DGP (Prisons) H N Satyanarayana Rao inaugurated the visitors’ parlour and laid foundation for entrance arch at the district sub jail here on Wednesday, May 3.
The new visitors’ parlour is divided in two blocks with 5 counters each and monitored by CCTV cameras and bullet proof glasses will be fixed soon. The new arch has been planned to be built behind the current entrance.
After inauguration, DGP addressed the media persons at prison officers’ conference room. He said “New central prison will come up in Mangaluru and it will be situated outside the city. It is Rs 200 crore project and the state government has allotted Rs 7.5 crore as the initial fund in its budget. Out of this Rs 2 crore has been already sanctioned,”
“The new prison includes hospital, library for prisoners and high class apartments for prison officers. The shifting of prisons from city to outskirts is a process which was mentioned in 'Central Prisons Manual '. We have succeed to find a proper place for shifting the prisons in Raichur and Karwar. In other districts, we are yet to find lands for new prisons. There is plan for special programmes for prisoners. We are going to start Yoga and meditation in some jails. Art of living led by Sri Ravishankar has come forward to conduct the meditation programmes." he explained.
"Majority of our prisons are in old conditions and not safe. We can see overcrowd in all our jails. Mangaluru sub-jail also is overcrowded. Besides this, Mangaluru jail is the most sensitive after Bengaluru jail. So we are giving all preferences to it as we do in Bengaluru. The process of increasing the staff in Mangaluru jail is already began. A metal detector electric security pole has been already sanctioned for Mangaluru Jail. Nowadays we are reducing escort to inmates and we are conducting the court hearings by video conferences with the help of courts. In Mangaluru also we deployed 3 video conference units."
Harishekaran, IGP ( Western range), Chandra Shekar, commissioner of police, were present among others.