Expansion: District jail to have 3 barracks soon
The barracks will have a capacity to hold 500 prisoners.
MANDI BAHAUDDIN:
Three barracks would be set up at the Mandi Bahauddin district jail, Senior Superintendent Chaudhry Naveed Ashraf said on Wednesday. The barracks will have a capacity to hold 500 prisoners, he said. The district jail senior superintendent said that a 10-foot high boundary wall would also be constructed around the 70-kanal land to improve security. Construction work on the wall, he said, would begin in a month. He said an additional two-foot high barbed wire will be installed on the wall. Currently, he said, the jail had a capacity of 300 inmates, however, there were more than 650 at the moment. He said 125 of these were death row prisoners.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 29th, 2012.
Three barracks would be set up at the Mandi Bahauddin district jail, Senior Superintendent Chaudhry Naveed Ashraf said on Wednesday. The barracks will have a capacity to hold 500 prisoners, he said. The district jail senior superintendent said that a 10-foot high boundary wall would also be constructed around the 70-kanal land to improve security. Construction work on the wall, he said, would begin in a month. He said an additional two-foot high barbed wire will be installed on the wall. Currently, he said, the jail had a capacity of 300 inmates, however, there were more than 650 at the moment. He said 125 of these were death row prisoners.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 29th, 2012.