MAHARASHTRA Home Minister Anil Deshmukh stated on Friday in Pune {that a} proposal to assemble a number of new jails with trendy facilities was into account of the state authorities to ease the prevailing overcrowding of inmates. Deshmukh was chatting with the media after he visited the Yerawada Central Prison in Pune, the biggest jail within the state. He interacted with some inmates and likewise prime jail officers throughout his go to. He toured varied jail business sections inside Yerawada Prison.
Interacting with the media, Deshmukh stated, “Currently prisons in Maharashtra occupy much higher numbers of inmates than the actual capacity. Three days ago, we submitted two proposals before the Chief Minister and the Deputy Chief Minister. One of the proposals is for constructing new houses for the police force. The other one is for increasing the capacity of our prisons. We have proposed to construct new prisons with modern amenities at multiple locations in the state. Some of them will be multi-storied. Our jails have available spaces with them, which will also be used for this.”
The present capability of the prisons in Maharashtra is round 23,200 however as on December 30, the variety of inmates in these premises was round 30,700. As a part of COVID decongestion effort, over 10,800 inmates each undertrials and convicts incarcerated for lesser and non-heinous offences that entice lower than seven years of most sentence have been launched both on provisional bail or parole since April.
Official sources stated that the brand new prisons might be constructed at seven to eight places within the state together with these in Pimpri Chinchwad, Nashik, Nagpur, Thane, Mumbai and another locations. These new jail premises when constructed would add greater than 14,000 to the current capability of the prisons within the state. Of these proposed jail in Pimpri Chinchwad would have capability of round 3,000, one at Mauje Mandale in Mumbai with over 4,100, Nashik 2,000, Thane 2,900 and Nagpur 1,660.
Deshmukh stated, “On this first day of the year, I visited Yerawada prison, one of the oldest and largest prisons in the state and interacted with some of the inmates too. Some of them have spoken to me about various issues they are facing and have also given me representations. With the efforts of all the prison staff and officials, we have now been able to contain the spread of COVID-19 inside prisons. In the prisons where infections were reported, immediate measures were taken to control it. This is in spite of having much more number of inmates than the available capacity.”
In May, Maharashtra Home Department had empowered the District Collectors within the state to take provisional possession of presidency or privately owned buildings and designate them as momentary prisons which can be utilized for isolating sections of prisoners to avert unfold of infections throughout COVID pandemic. 37 momentary prisons have been designated throughout the state, most of that are on the campuses of faculties, faculties or hostels which have a number of separate buildings. These momentary prisoners at the moment home over 3000 women and men along with the present inhabitants of over 30,700 housed in most important jail premises.
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