India Covid Crisis: Prison officials seek to stop jails from overcrowding
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Officials suggest arresting only those indulging in serious offences.
The ongoing Covid crisis has resulted in a strange situation with the head of the prisons department in Maharashtra telling top police officials to only arrest criminals indulging in serious offences and not those engaged in petty crimes including gambling and prohibition related ones.
Sunil Ramanand, the additional director-general, prisons, has written to senior police officers in the state asking for help in decongesting about 60 jails in the state to prevent the spread of Covid-19 among the inmates and the prison staff. Most of the jails are overcrowded and there is hardly any room to ensure social distancing.
High power committee to meet on Friday over rising Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra’s prisons
High power committee to meet on Friday over rising Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra’s prisons
Amid a surge in Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra, a high power committee is meeting in Mumbai on Friday to discuss how to deal with the Covid situation in the state’s prisons.
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UPDATED: May 7, 2021 04:06 IST
A high power committee is meeting in Mumbai on Friday to discuss how to deal with the Covid situation in the state’s prisons. (Photo: File) (Representative Image)
Amid a surge in Covid-19 cases in Maharashtra, a state high power committee is meeting in Mumbai on Friday to discuss the Covid situation in the state’s prisons and ‘decongest the jails’.
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PUNE: The state prisons department on Saturday suspended superintendent of Alibaug district jail Ambadas Patil after he was indicted in a departmental inquiry for allowing Republic TV’s Arnab Goswami to use his cell phone on the night of November 5, 2020.
Additional director-general (prisons) Sunil Ramanand told TOI, “An inquiry by Arthur Road central jail superintendent revealed that Patil unlawfully gave his phone to Goswami when he was at the makeshift quarantine centre at Alibaug civic school for communication with an outsider.”
Ramanand said, “The inquiry officer relied on the statement of a jail guard, who had seen Patil handing over his phone to Goswami, for communicating with an outsider for more than two minutes. Patil’s call data records and personal details of the caller show that a call was made from his phone late that night.”
Maharashtra launches jail tourism initiative from Pune s Yerawada jail ANI | Updated: Jan 26, 2021 21:23 IST
Pune (Maharashtra) [India], January 26 (ANI): Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday launched a jail tourism initiative of the state government from Pune s Yerawada prison, in a move to help students learn about historical experiences.
The initiative was launched via an online event. Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar and other top officials were physically present at the Yerawada jail.
During the launch event, Uddhav Thackeray spoke about several freedom fighters who spent a jail term in the Yerwada jail in Pune.
He also remembered the day when he used to visit the jail with his mother when his father late Balasaheb Thackeray was imprisoned here.