Best Practices in Telangana Prisons

Central Prisons

District Prisons

Special Prisons for

Women

Prisoners Agricultural

Colony

Borstal School Special Sub Jails

3Hyderabad Cherlapally & Warangal

7Adilabad SangareddyNalgonda NizamabadKarimnagar MahabubnagarKhammam

1Hyderabad

1Cherlapally

1Nizamabad

4

Sub Jails-

33

Institutional Set up

As on 26.1.2019 the details of Prisons Lock up

Category Convicted Prisoners

Remand Prisoners

Others Total

Male 2016 2998 300 5256

Female 155 230 26 394

Total 2171 3228 326 5725

A preview of Telangana Prisons

➢In Telangana State Prisons department has been a neglected child over years. Due to Shortage of budget, less manpower, lack of infrastructure plagued the department

➢Vision 2025 started with the realization that crying and cribbing doesn’t help. We have to help ourselves

➢We resolved to make Telangana State Prisons as one of the best prisons in the Country

➢To observe the best practices in the other state prisons in the country The Director General of Prisons& Correctional Services, Telangana State visited-Tamilnadu, Kerala, UP, Bihar, Gujarat, Punjab, New Delhi(Tihar), Rajasthan, MP, Odisha and Pondicherry

➢ No proper maintenance of prison buildings

➢ Roof leakages in many prison buildings

➢ Badly maintained residential quarters

➢ Ill-equipped/ ill-furnished offices

➢ Insufficient illumination in prison premises

➢ Insecure door and window grills

Infrastructure before Year?

➢Jails like resorts.

➢Well maintained buildings through our own efforts.

➢High tech visitor lounges at all Central Jails and District Jails.

➢State of the art Head quarters is constructed in 2014-2015 withthe help of renowned architect and Interior designer.

➢New Guesthouses and classrooms etc constructed in 2015-2016.

➢Chambers of all officers refurnished and air conditioned to change the organizational climate and improve self esteem and efficiency.

➢All prison buildings, residential quarters and perimeter walls painted with Uniform color code - a glossy look.

Status of Infrastructure now

DISTRICT JAIL, NIZAMABAD

Prior view Present view

STAFF QUARTERS: CENTRAL PRISON, HYDERABAD

Present viewPrior view

Inside view

Visitors Lounge at Central Prison Hyderabad

Contraband items➢Past scenario- Cell phone, Ganja and other contraband articles were regularly

found.

➢An adverse news telecasted in local Telugu news channel regarding usage of cell phones by prison inmates.

Current scenario

➢No such contraband items found in many recent surprise raids conducted by DG Prisons task force in Central Prison, Hyderabad, Central Prison Cherlapally, Central Prison Warangal and other jails.

➢This achievement was spectacular because we didn’t have any technical gadgets till recently.

Mobility

➢In the past mobility in our Jails was very poor.

➢Now we have purchased around 117 vehicles of which 56 are four wheelers and 61 are two wheelers.

➢ All these vehicles have been purchased out of Prison Development Fund.

S.No Name of the Vehicle

Before June 2014

After June 2014

S.No Name of the Vehicle

Before June 2014

After June 2014

1 Skoda Octavia 1 - 14 Swaraj Mazda bus 2 -

2 Toyoto Innova 1 5 15 Eicher Van 2 2

3 Honda City - 2 16 Tata Turbo

(407)Escort Van

3 -

4 Mahindra Scorpio 1 5 17 Swaraj Mazda

Ambulance

2 -

5 Mahindra Bolero - 1 18 Tata Sumo Ambulance 3 -

6 Tata Sumo Gold 1 15 19 Maruthi Echo

Ambulance

4 2

7 Maruthi Ertiga 1 - 20 Maruthi Omni

Ambulance

11 -

8 Tata Sumo victa 5 - 21 JCB 3DX Excavator 1 -

9 Toyoto Qualis 2 - 22 Tractor 6 3

10 Ambassador car 1 - 23 Tractor Trailer 5 3

11 Tata Indica 6 - 24 Motor Cycles 19 61

12 Maruthi Van 9 - 25 Battery Operative

vehicle

- 3

13 Force Traveller 1 3 26 Tata Ace Auto 12➢ Before June 2014- Total 87 vehicles➢ After June 2014- Total 117

MOBILITY

Technology ❖On Technology front Telangana Prisons Department made tremendous progress.

❖Videoconferencing facility is extended to all Central, District Jails and Sub Jails.

❖CCTV Camera’s with Command control rooms are established in all Central Prisons, District Prisons and Special Sub Jails

❖All Jails are provided with LCD projector for the Prisoners training.

❖Telephone facility for inmates is provided in all Central and District Jails.

❖E Prisons (PIMS) project with the collaboration of NICS started in 2015 in all Telangana jails

❖ E- mulakhath facility is introduced in all Jails.

❖Having seen the improvement in Telangana Prisons, the Government has sanctioned 30 crore rupees for Modernization and Technology up gradation.

Corruption free Jails

Prisons Department, Telangana State, declared itself a corruption free Department

First Department to have the courage to do so

4 stage process to control corruption

All staff takes oath on every Monday

More than 1 Lakh posters are posted through out the state

Third party call system: takes feedback from released Prisoners

❖ Declared reward of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten thousand) to any one whose complaint of corruption against Prison officials proved true.

Health

Past scenario

➢ Many vacancies of Doctors in Jails.

➢ High Inmate deaths in Jails.

➢ Hon’ble High Court of Hyderabad expressed displeasure.

➢ Prisoners protested at recurring deaths.

➢ Press & media portrayed Prisons in very poor light for the lack of health facilities.

Deaths of Prisoners data

Year (Jan to Dec)

Total

2013 53

2014 56

2015 32

2016 24

2017 17

2018 08

Current facilities➢Many measures undertaken to improve Health facilities.

➢Mandatory Master Health checkup to those who spend more than 7 days in jails.

➢Smoking banned in all jails in 2015.

➢Personal responsibility of Superintendent and Medical Officer.

➢Senior officer to visit prisoners daily if they are in Hospital.

➢Warders and others being taken as Lab technicians to create facility of pathology tests.

➢Free supply of medicines through Prison Development Fund.

➢Medical camps organized in Jails and visits of specialist Doctors arranged.

➢Government filled up the posts of Doctors at our request.

Past scenario of Industries in Telangana Prisons

➢Industries were in moribund stage.

➢Only around 5% of the prisoners getting work, if we include under trials.

➢Only two Central prisons viz., CP Cherlapally and CP Warangal had Industries.

➢No marketing, no outlet, no quality control and no money for raw materials.

➢Very poor skills or rather totally unskilled prisoners.

INDUSTRIES

Year Turnover Profit

2014 149 Crores Rs. 3.04 Crores

2015 165 Crores Rs. 5.01 Crores

2016 297 Crores Rs. 7.14 Crores

2017 399 Crores Rs. 12.85 Crores

2018 495.85 Crores Rs. 16.72 Crores

2020 Expected profit

100 crores

Current status of the Industries ➢We are aiming at 100 Crores annual profit by 2020. We will be self sufficient

financially by 2020.

➢All jails now being made Industrial hubs.

➢New ventures like Ayurvedic Village, plywood furniture taken up in different Jails.

➢We run 16 Petrol Pumps in different districts of Telangana. We have a plan to open about 100 petrol bunks.

➢Prison Development Fund being used to rejuvenate industries.

➢New Machines are being purchased.

Public Private Partnerships in many areas. Like PPP with SS industries for steel manufacturing and MOU with Himalaya Drugs.

We have opened more than 300 MY NATION outlets for sale of Prison products across the state. Now we have no problem of demand.

My Nation Village Outlets

Total No. of Village Outlets established throughout

Telangana State

2018 Total Sales

980 Rs. 93,65,199-00

Employed Prisoners detailsS.No Total no of

ConvictsNo of Convict

Prisoners employedTotal no of Under

trialsNo Of UT’s employed

1 1952 1428 3015 399

❖Now 73 % of convicted Prisoners are employed in Prison Industries.

❖Efforts are being put to provide employment to 90% convicts and 50% UT’s.

Employed released women prisoners at Petrol pump at Chanchalguda

Inside Ayurveda village

Panchakarma therapy room

MY NATION AYURVEDIC VILLAGE

➢A Unique Program adopted in the year 2014.

➢Jails as Sainik school

➢Every Prisoner who cannot sign is taught to sign his name.

➢Every Prisoner is provided with basic education.

➢Basing on the Prisoners education level, they are divided into classesfrom Class-I to Class X.

➢Exams are conducted regularly to monitor the progress of thePrisoners.

➢Trimester system: After every three months, Prisoner is promoted tonext class.

➢Those who fail have to take backlog exams.

➢Prisoners who have qualification above class-X are given computereducation.

➢Computers are provided to all Jails including Sub Jails.

VIDYADANA YOJANA

20147%

201510%

201611%

201713%

20189%

TOTAL50%

Other59%

2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 TOTAL

Inmates who gone through the education programme inside the Prison

Sl. No TIMINGS DAILY ROUTINE

1 6.00 AM TO 7.00 AM Unlocking, fresh up & Tea

2 7.00 AM TO 8.00 AM P.T & Parade

3 8.00 AM TO 9.00 AM Breakfast, Cleaning & Bathing

4 9 AM TO 11.00 AM Vidyadanam - Education classes to prisoners

5 11.00 AM TO11.45 AM Lunch

6 11.45 AM TO 12.15 PM Mid-day Census

7 12.15 PM TO 1.00 PM Rest & Tea

8 1.00 PM TO 3.00 PM Vidyadanam - Education classes to prisoners

9 3.00 PM TO 4.00 PM Moral Classes - Guest Lectures, Short Films through Projector

10 4.00 PM TO 4.45 PM Mass Yoga

11 5.00 PM TO 5.45 PM Dinner

12 5.45 PM TO-6.00 PM Lock Up

13 7.00 PM TO 8.00 PM Study Hour ( for weak students) / TV hours

TIME TABLE

➢Project Mahaparivarthan was launched in August, 2015 whichaims at complete transformation of a Prisoner in all aspects.

➢The programme aims to reduce Recidivism and thereby crime inthe society.

MAHAPARIVARTHAN

UNNATI PROGRAMME

❖Cognitive – Behavioural Skill Development Program called‘UNNATI’ is a one month counselling program for prisoners.

❖Prof. C. Beena and Team is conducting training programs forPrison inmates who are habitual and high risk offenders at CentralPrisons and District Prisons.

❖CT Inmates are being trained under T.O.T (Training of Trainers) tocounsel / motivate the fellow Inmates to lead a crime free life.

❖This specially designed counseling program “UNNATI” is yieldinggood results in reforming the offending behavior.

Unnati Data

S.no Number of Prisoners attended

Number of Prisoners released

Number Of participants returned to prison

1. 5092 4246 76

❖ From 2015 till date 186 batches conducted in

all 10 prisons

Falsely implicated Claims❖At the time of admission every Prisoner is asked whether he is falselyimplicated or not. It is the responsibility of Welfare Jailor andSuperintendent to get correct information and talk to SHOs regardingPrisoners grievances.

❖Two registers are maintained in every Jail for registering Prisoners’Grievances and requirement of employment after release.

❖On release every prisoner is asked whether he needs employment forsustenance post-release.

Number of claims reported

2017 323

2018 185

2019 04

Rehabilitation of released Prisoners

The Welfare Officers of this department are regularly interacting with theprisoners at the time of release and recording their request for employmentin “Employment Register”.

Placement Cell is setup at Head office.

Efforts are made to provide 100% employment to the released needyprisoners.

Number of People Employed

SlNo

JailIndustries

AyurvedicVillages

My Nation Outlets at Villages

Privateindustries

Total

1 247 15 40 443 745

After Care Service Teams✓We have set our sights at emptying the jails. We want to make Telangana as a crime-free society

✓We have now designed a scheme wherein 31 group of officers will take care of ex-prisoners in 31 districts. A database is being prepared for all habitual and serious offenders who have no social support system

✓Our group of officers will pursue each and every ex-prisoner logged in our database. We will take care of employment, counseling and legal support of these persons

✓ This team will also organize loan from banks, pursue with the police if they are lifted on mere suspicion by the police and organize counseling sessions for them and their family

✓The beauty of Telangana Prisons is that we don’t do anything symbolic or as a pilot project. We work for wholesale change. So this programme is launched all over the State in one shot

Decline in Number of Prisoners admissionsYear Number of Prisoners Admitted per year

2014 81,530

2015 79,409

2016 62,608

2017 59,182

2018 55,734

✓ Telangana Government ordered to close down 5 Sub Jails

due to lack of Prisoners

Decline in Number of admissions of Prisoners

➢Telangana Government ordered to close down 5 Sub Jails due to lack of Prisoners

• Telangana State Prisons Department introduced another innovative program in all Jails.•Cultural Programs are conducted on fourth Sunday of every month. This program is for thePrisoners by the Prisoners and of the Prisoners.•It aims to bring out the hidden talents of the prisoners and also improve their state ofmind inside the Prison.

CULTURAL PROGRAMMES IN ALL JAILS

1st State level Prisoners’ Cultural meet

Annual Prisoners’ Sports Meet

Prisoners Platoon March past during Independence Day Celebrations

For Republic Day and Independence Day, every year 3 Prisoners platoons

participate in the march past.

Telangana Prisons have taken an initiative to provide loans, to the convictprisoners who complete three years of conviction for the followingpurposes.

➢Education of Children.

➢Daughters’ marriages.

➢Financial aid to the dependents to run small business like Tailoring, Dairy farm etc.,

➢ The above Loans are recovered from the wages earned by the Prisoners on installment basis.

LOANS TO PRISONERS

Loans sanctioned

in the year

No. of Prisoners Loan Amount

2016 137 Rs.36,58,500=00

2017 26 Rs 5,46,500=00

2018 15 Rs.4,67,000=00

LOANS SANCTIONED TO THE PRISONERS UNDER

THE SCHEME OF MAHAPARIVARTHAN

Canteen profits in rupeesS.No Institution 2015 2016 2017

1 Central Prison, Cherlapalli 235,422 180,019 362,252

2 Central Prison, Hyderabad 140,090 348,980 355,754

3 Central Prison, Warangal 115,923 93,583 101,871

4 Spl.Prison for Women,

Hyderabad38,250 42,160 17,361

5 District Jail, Sangareddy 33,984 40,738 52,017

6 District Jail, Nalgonda 22,729 35,107 23,276

7 District Jail,

Mahaboobnagar13,191 22,711 18,405

8 District Jail, Nizamabad 37,387 50,897 61,079

9 District Jail, Karimnagar 17,350 33,442 29,590

10 District Jail, Khammam 8,998 19,734 20,442

11 District Jail, Adilabad 6,426 5,142 5,957

12 All Sub Jails 19,790 37,911 43,212

Total 689,540 910,424 10,91,216

➢At the time of admission, every Prisoner is given a copy of Prisoners rights and duties and is made aware of facilities provided to him.

➢Parole and furlough are granted to Prisoners with in a week.

➢Psychologists are appointed in all Central and District Jails.

➢Jan Dhan Yojana– Prime Minister’s flag ship program is implemented successfully in all jails.

➢Adhaar card made compulsory for all Prisoners.

• School buses are provided for staff children.•Master Health Checkup is arranged for the staff and their families.•Medical camps for staff and their families are regularly organized.• Staff members are felicitated with awards & rewards for their good work.• Cultural programs are organized at staff quarters regularly.• Summer camps are conducted to the Staff children.• Sports material are provided to the prison staff.• Interest -free loans to staff.• Sports & Games facilities are provided.• Scholarship to merit students of staff• 20% discount on Jail products to all Jail personnel• Bonus --20% of the earnings to Prisons Personnel.

PRISON STAFF WELFARE

TRAINING➢Human Resource Development- Key to success of any organization

➢Training for all- Once in every two years

➢Computer Training – Minimum literacy to all staff

➢Monthly Physical Fitness program.

➢Skill development programs for guarding staff- every warder should have one skill.

➢State of the art facilities in training institute.

➢All Jails are made training centers.

➢Exams in Prison rules, Computer literacy and codal provisions are conducted to all staff in all jails every month.

Sl.

No. Name of the Prison Total BMI -26 to

29 (Over

weight)

BMI

above 29 (obese)

Below 40%

marks secured

1 Central Prison Hyderabad 148 49 9 11

2 Central Prison Cherlapalli 178 29 7 -

3 Central Prison Warangal 158 36 8 4

4 PAC , Cherlapalli 25 4 5

5 Special Prison for Women, Hyd 11 5

6 District Jail Adilabad 29 9

7 District Jail Karimnagar 38 9 4

8 District Jail Nizamabad 37 8 2

9 District Jail Khammam 40 3 1

10 District Jail Nalgonda 31 3 2 1

11 District Jail Mahaboobnagar 34 7 5

12 District Jail Sangareddy 27 4 1

13 DSJO Adilabad 27 4 1

14 DSJO Karimnagar 14 4

15 DSJO Nizamabad 15 7 1

16 Borstal School 2 2 1

17 DSJO Khammam 25 2

18 DSJO Warangal 21 4

19 DSJO Nalgonda 38 9 1 --

20 DSJO Mahaboobnagr 8 1

21 DSJO Medak 16 5 1

22 Pargi sub jail, DSJO Ranga Reddy 5 3 - -

23 SICA 20 9 3 -

TOTAL 947 214 49 21

Conference Hall at SICA

Heritage Jail & Museum, Sangareddy

•220 year Old District jail at Sangareddy, Medak District is converted into Heritage Jail and Museum. It was originally constructed in 1796 by the Nizams as cavalry barrack, later converted into Jail.•The Museum showcases antiques like Old Handcuffs, Weaving Machine, Bells, Uniforms, Literature, Telephones, Old Records, Photographs, etc,.

‘Feel the Jail @ Rs. 500’ Telangana Prisons Department has come up with an idea to let a citizen feel

the life of prisoner. The scheme is called ‘Feel the Jail’.

The museum is having the capacity of 30 visitors to stay.

We thought of this concept for public to get a feel of the Jail.

The visitors are provided with jail clothing and jail food. Phones are notallowed.

The visitors in the jail are treated as the Prisoners and they have to performthe daily routine similar to the prisoners in other jails.

This concept became sensational and covered by National and InternationalMedia like History channel and National Geographic channel.

Recently celebrated Museum week. Cultural programs are arranged weeklong. Home minister and many VIP’s visited the museum during thecelebrations.

PRISON DEVELOPMENT BOARD

❖The Government has constituted Prison Development Board under the Chairmanship of the Hon’ble Chief Minister to over-see the development of the department. The Act came into force on 13th April, 2001.

❖The Director General of Prisons and Correctional Services is the Managing Director.

❖Prison Development Fund: Total profits from Industries goes into this fund.

RETREAT•Telangana Prisons Department conducts Retreat annually.

•Retreat is conducted at two levels, Regional level and State level.

•For Regional retreat staff from the rank of Warder to Jailor participates.

•Officers from the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Jails to Inspector General of Prisons participate in the State level Retreat

Sri SP Singh,Chief Secretary to Government, Telangana state, chief guest for Retreat 2017

Rehabilitation of Beggars

•Prisons Department, Telangana state has volunteered to take the responsibility of Beggars.• Government of Telangana Issued a G.O Ms No. 266, Municipal Administration & Urban Development(UBS) Department, Dated: 12.10.2017•Educational and skill development facilities are provided to Beggars lodged in Anand Ashram.•Psychological counseling and medical treatment is provided.•Skill development facilities are provided.•Employment is provided in Prison Industries.

Facilities in Anand Ashram

Beds for the individuals Individuals in the classroom

Anand Ashram inmates while playing

Contribution to the Environment

➢ We are one of the better performing departments in Haritha haram project of

the government. 3 Jails received Haritha Mitra awards.

➢ 2 lakh rupees cash reward each.

➢ More than 3 lakh teak wood and other hard wood trees planted in the last 4

years.

➢ 140 rain water harvesting pits were dug in all Jails as part of saving ground water .

➢ All Central Jails and District Jails have dug big size ponds to conserve water. “Not a single drop of rain water should go waste” is our objective.

➢ In all jails of Telangana, no bore well is dry.

TREE PLANTATION AND PONDS

LAURELS

Mr. Brian Norris, Assistant Professor, Military College of SouthCarolina, USA, visited Prisons in Telangana State on 03.08.2016.Mr. Norris is on a world tour with purpose of studying Prisonreforms in various countries. He observed that Telangana Prisonshave better structured administration and cleaner than thePrisons in other countries.

Mr. Iqbal Hussain, Addl. IG of Prisons, Mr. Shaik Shakil Ahmed,Deputy Secretary, MHA, and other 12 delegates fromBangladesh visited Telangana Prisons and appreciated variousprograms implemented for the reformation of inmates.

DG Prisons West Bengal, DG Prisons Punjab, DG Prisons Karnataka, DG Prisons Tamilnadu, DG Prisons Madhya Pradesh, Principal Secretary, Bihar and IG Prisons Uttarakhand, IG Prisons UP, visited our Jails and profusely praised our innovations. Prison Officials from Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, Gujarat, Karnataka, Trainee Deputy Superintendents from Jharkhand visited Telangana Prisons and inspired by our programs.

Sri Bezwada Wilson, Raman Magsaysay Award winnerhas appreciated Telangana Prisons Department forimplementing the concept of Mahaparivarthan to createcrime free society

Recognition/ Honour??