BHUBANESWAR: Taking a cue from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana governments, the Odisha prisons directorate is making plans to open petrol bunks on its lands and employ convicts, serving existence imprisonment. An offer on this regard was once recently despatched to the state govt for approval.
"We were impressed by the successful experiments of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and have sent a similar proposal to our government. This is part of the reform and correctional measures for jail inmates," additional director basic of police (prisons) Binyanand Jha told TOI.
As in keeping with the plan, gas filling stations might be opened adjoining different jails (on jail land), having most number of lifer convicts. Only the ones, serving existence imprisonment with good attitude, might be employed to run the petrol pumps. "Once the government approves our proposal, we will start a survey to choose the right candidates. We also need to choose some educated lifers, who can smoothly manage the fuel filling stations," Jha stated. The prisons directorate has proposed to open gas stations close to Jamujhari outdoor jail on Bhubaneswar outskirts and in Cuttack, Berhampur and Sambalpur districts.
Sources stated two oil PSUs already started the groundwork after being invited through the prisons wing. "We asked them to select the sites and explore the feasibility of smooth business. Initially, petrol pumps can be opened on jail lands that can fetch good revenue. Later, we can engage our convicts to run those units," some other jail legitimate stated.
The officers dispelled apprehension of conceivable get away through the convicts from workplace. "We, at present, allow convicts of Jamujhari open air jail to move outside. We admit a few of them had escaped. But we will pick up the best convicts, who will never escape," some other officer stated.
At present 89 jails function in the state with the capacity to deal with 18,012 inmates. Currently, total 15,789 inmates, including 3594 convicts are lodged in the jails around the state. Of the entire convicts, girls represent handiest round 4 %.
Last year, the state govt licensed premature release of 33 convicts from different jails after remission in their existence sentence. The factor of early release of prisoners, convicted for homicide, was once pending since lengthy in view of the Supreme Court's July 2014 intervening time order striking a blanket ban on the state governments from exercising their discretion in remitting the sentences of existence convicts. The apex courtroom vacated its order in July 2015 with certain riders paving method for the state sentence evaluation boards (SSRBs) to take cases of deserving prisoners.
"We were impressed by the successful experiments of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and have sent a similar proposal to our government. This is part of the reform and correctional measures for jail inmates," additional director basic of police (prisons) Binyanand Jha told TOI.
As in keeping with the plan, gas filling stations might be opened adjoining different jails (on jail land), having most number of lifer convicts. Only the ones, serving existence imprisonment with good attitude, might be employed to run the petrol pumps. "Once the government approves our proposal, we will start a survey to choose the right candidates. We also need to choose some educated lifers, who can smoothly manage the fuel filling stations," Jha stated. The prisons directorate has proposed to open gas stations close to Jamujhari outdoor jail on Bhubaneswar outskirts and in Cuttack, Berhampur and Sambalpur districts.
Sources stated two oil PSUs already started the groundwork after being invited through the prisons wing. "We asked them to select the sites and explore the feasibility of smooth business. Initially, petrol pumps can be opened on jail lands that can fetch good revenue. Later, we can engage our convicts to run those units," some other jail legitimate stated.
The officers dispelled apprehension of conceivable get away through the convicts from workplace. "We, at present, allow convicts of Jamujhari open air jail to move outside. We admit a few of them had escaped. But we will pick up the best convicts, who will never escape," some other officer stated.
At present 89 jails function in the state with the capacity to deal with 18,012 inmates. Currently, total 15,789 inmates, including 3594 convicts are lodged in the jails around the state. Of the entire convicts, girls represent handiest round 4 %.
Last year, the state govt licensed premature release of 33 convicts from different jails after remission in their existence sentence. The factor of early release of prisoners, convicted for homicide, was once pending since lengthy in view of the Supreme Court's July 2014 intervening time order striking a blanket ban on the state governments from exercising their discretion in remitting the sentences of existence convicts. The apex courtroom vacated its order in July 2015 with certain riders paving method for the state sentence evaluation boards (SSRBs) to take cases of deserving prisoners.
Odisha Prisons to open fuel stations, employ lifers
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