PRISONERS ALLOWED TO USE PHONE ALL DAYS OF THE WEEK

Prisoners and undertrials in jails in the state can make phone calls on all days of the week. The facility was earlier restricted to two calls per week.

The new facility will not be available to terror suspects and hardcore prisoners, said DGP, Prisons, V.K. Singh.

Mr Singh said the prisons department has reduced the number of deaths of inmates and had taken up a measures to educate them.

“Ours is the only department which is discharging social responsibility and service beyond the call of duty,” Mr Singh said.

The jail has replaced the old iron mesh used to separate the inmate and the visitor during mulakat with an unbreakable glass.

Intercoms have been installed for them to speak, Mr Singh said. CCTV cameras have been placed all over the premises.

Mr Singh said officials had been instructed to meet the public even without appointment during office hours.

The department’s headquarters has been shifted to a new campus near Nalgonda crossroads.

He said the department was in the forefront to rehabilitate beggars, mentally challenged, destitutes and said no prisons department has taken up such an initiative.