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May 6, 2008

Modern prison complex for women convicts in Tiruchi

The Times of India

TIRUCHI: About 200-odd women convicts, presently housed in the Tiruchi Central Prison complex, would soon be moving into a spanking new prison to spend the rest of their term.

With a different ambience, the new prison will be more pleasant 'temporary home' for the inmates to serve their sentence. According to the Deputy Inspector General of Prisons, Tiruchi range, B M Ezra after the Puzhal prison complex in Chennai, the new Tiruchi prison for women would be the most modern one in Tamil Nadu. Prison authorities have asked the Public Works Department to expedite construction of the Rs 9.98 crore-structure coming up on a sprawling 17 acre stretch of land at Gandhi Market in the city, to enable relocation of woman convicts by August this year. “The construction of a major part of the complex is over. Now the compound wall is being raised. We expect the building to be ready in a couple of months,'' said prison superintendent A Murugesan. Once ready, the inmates would be moved to the new complex, he said.

Besides roomier cells and recreation centres, the modern prison would have a 24 bed-multi-specialty hospital, a crèche that would accommodate up to 60 children of the inmates and classrooms for continuing education for the convicts.

Presently, woman convicts and remand prisoners from Tiruchi, Perambalur, Karur, Pudukkottai, Madurai, Ramanathapuram, Virudhunagar, Sivagangai, Dindigul and Kanyakumari are crowded into the special prison for women inside the Central prison complex.