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New Central Jail Bahawalpur 
Location Bahawalpur, Pakistan Status Operational Security class Maximum Population [1] (as of 03 February 2010) Opened 1955 Managed by Government of the Punjab, Home Department Director Naveed Rauf, Senior Superintendent of Jail Notable prisoners Sheikh Rashid Ahmed New Central Jail Bahawalpur is a jail in Bahawalpur, Pakistan located on Jail Road nearly one kilometer toward east of the Radio Pakistan Bahawalpur. In September 2006, four members of the same family, including one father, his two sons and one brother, were hanged to death in this jail.[2] The jail has been declared as Model Jail by the Government of the Punjab, Home Department in the year 2010.
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History
The jail was built in 1955 when the Old Central Jail Bahawalpur was declared as Borstal Institution & Juvenile Jail. It was constructed with a view to confine long-term and life prisoners of Bahawalpur Division.
Prison Industries
Following prison industries are functioning in the jail[3] to train the convicted prisoners in various trades and handicrafts so that they could earn their living after release form Jail, utilise prison labour in profitable works for benefit of state exchequer, and to keep the prisoners busy in useful tasks.
- Prisoner Durree Weaving Unit
- Carpet Knitting Unit
- Niwar Knitting Unit
- School and Office Furniture Manufacturing Unit
The school and office furniture manufactured at the Jail is supplied to all educational institutions in the districts of Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, Lodhran and Rahim Yar Khan.
See also
- Government of Punjab, Pakistan
- Punjab Prisons (Pakistan)
- Central Jail Faisalabad
- Central Jail Lahore
- Central Jail Mianwali
- Prison Officer
- Headquarter Jail
- Central Jail Rawalpindi
- District Jail Rawalpindi
- District Jail Jhelum
- National Academy for Prisons Administration
- Punjab Prisons Staff Training Institute
References
- ^ Official Website of Punjab Prisons (Pakistan)
- ^ http://www.handsoffcain.info/archivio_news/200609.php?iddocumento=8332718&mover=0
- ^ Record of Manufacturing Jails maintained at the Industry Branch of the Inspectorate General of Prisons, Punjab, Lahore under supervision of A.I.G (Prison Industries).
External links
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