Open prison

An open prison is an informal description applied to any penal establishment in which the prisoners are trusted to serve their sentences with minimal supervision and perimeter security and so do not need to be locked up in prison cells. Prisoners may be permitted to take up employment in the community, returning to the prison.

In popular culture

The 1957 Hindi film, Do Aankhen Barah Haath by V.Shantaram was inspired by the story of an 'open-prison' experiment swatantrapur in the princely state of Aundh near Satara, Maharashtra.^[1]

See also

• Prison security categories in the United Kingdom

References

1. ^ 50 years of a Shantaram classic The Times of India, 28 Sep 2006.

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