Sindh

Dangerous Criminals: Sindh tightens jail security after Bannu scare

Paramilitary personnel are guarding the ones with dangerous prisoners.

Our Correspondent April 16, 2012

KARACHI:

The Taliban ambush of the Bannu jail freeing 348 inmates has shaken up the Sindh government that declared four of its institutions “sensitive” on Monday. They house 1,000 most “dangerous” prisoners.

“The central jail, at Landhi and in Sukkur are sensitive but we have also declared Hyderabad a sensitive prison as it holds many suspects belong to militant groups,” Sindh Prisons Minister Ayaz Soomro said.

Paramilitary personnel are guarding the ones with dangerous prisoners.

The number of dangerous criminals in Central Prison Karachi is 169, in Sukkur-I 339, Central Prison Hyderabad 200, district central jail Khairpur 233, district jail Malir 12, district jail Dadu 50, and district jail Jacobabad 19.

On another note, he said that there will be no discrimination in Sindh’s 27 jails where the government is converting all of them into B class facilities. Computer training will also be given. “The juveniles are now being trained at the Youthful Offender Industrial School in Karachi. This will be replicated in other jails soon through NGOs,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 17^th, 2012.

COMMENTS (1)

Khalid Pathan | 12 years ago | Reply Very encouraging News that all jails in Sindh will be upgraded to a B class status. Moreover, providing technical education to inmates and vocational training is the right thing to do. I hope that standard of vocational training will really help the inmates to rehabilitate into the society once they are set free. No wonder that a system of education inside the prison which is free from use of unfair means, rote learning, private tutoring, will replace the existing system of education which has brought this country to this sorry state. Let the ruling elite book in advance a place for educating their kids into a better system. Better late than never.

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