There are many misconceptions about prisons in India. For example, 24 hours in jail are two days, life imprisonment is only 14 years. Apart from this, people are very interested in the world of jail. For example, how do the prisoners live there? What work are they made to do? How is the cell of dreaded criminals in jail? Where are VVIP prisoners kept? How do prisoners earn money while in jail? Many such questions roam in the hearts and minds of people.
However, here we will talk about a jail in India where there are no bars of any kind, even the cells of the prisoners in this jail are not locked or shackled. You must be wondering whether there would be such a jail? However, it is true…
There are eight types of prisons
There are eight types of jails in India. This includes from Central Jail to Sub Jail. Central jails are those jails, where the convicts sentenced for more than 2 years or the dreaded criminals are kept. There is a lot of security in these jails. Madhya Pradesh has the maximum number of 11 central jails in the country. At the same time, there are 9 central jails each in Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu and Punjab. Apart from this, there are district jails at the district level. At the same time, there are all jails at sub division level.
Special facilities are available in these jails
Open jail is one of the categories of Indian jails. This is for such prisoners who are good in behavior and follow the jail rules. The prisoners are given special facilities in these jails. Even the prisoners kept in open jail can wake up in the morning and go to work and at night they all return back to the jail. There are no bars in these jails and there are no locks either. Security arrangements are also less here. Such prisons were started in India during the British period. The country’s first open jail was opened in Mumbai in 1905. Even in central jails, if the behavior of a prisoner is good then he can also be transferred to an open jail.
