Away from the grilles, the high walls, X-ray scanners, armed guards and the overcrowded prison cells, a four-storey building inside Tihar jail’s 400-acre complex stands apart.
There are no iron gates or armed guards monitoring and frisking visitors here.
Located behind the office of the prison’s director general, the building complex comprises the open and the semi-open jails. Delhi is one of the 17 states that has come up with such a facility.
At least 98 convicts with ‘good conduct,’ who have served 12 years in prison, are lodged in the semi-open and the open-jail complex. Unlike the other 15,000 prisoners, who share cells or fit themselves into barracks, every prisoner in open jail complex gets a room.
It is their space earned through ‘good work’.
Read more of this is a report by Prawesh Lama published in Hindustan Times...
