The Union Ministry of Home Affairs has given its approval to the establishment of high-security jails in Assam, Delhi, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, and Karnataka.
Assam To Have High-Security Jail
Each of these states will get funds worth Rs 100 crore. for this purpose. As per the reports, the IG (Prisons), Assam has initiated the process to seek necessary lands from the Kamrup district administration for the establishment of a high-security jail.
According to the sources, high-security jails will have the deployment of Central Armed Police Forces, apart from the Assam Police and jail personnel.
”The reformation of prisoners cannot be possible if all types of prisoners are lodged together. Different types of criminals need individual treatment. Unless a well-planned classification of inmates is made and habitual and hardened criminals, who have adopted crime as a way of life, are separated from the rest, it would be difficult to save the first offenders from the crime infection,” a source stated.