- Source: New Central Jail Bahawalpur
New Central Jail Bahawalpur is a jail in Bahawalpur, Pakistan located on Jail Road nearly one kilometer toward east of the Radio Pakistan Bahawalpur. In September 2006, four members of the same family, including one father, his two sons and one brother, were hanged to death in this jail. The jail has been declared as Model Jail by the Government of the Punjab, Home Department in the year 2010.
History
The jail was built in 1955 when the Old Central Jail Bahawalpur was declared as Borstal Institution & Juvenile Jail. It was constructed with a view to confine long-term and life prisoners of Bahawalpur Division.
Prison industries
Following prison industries are functioning in the jail to train the convicted prisoners in various trades and handicrafts so that they could earn their living after release form Jail, utilise prison labour in profitable works for benefit of state exchequer, and to keep the prisoners busy in useful tasks.
Prisoner Durree Weaving Unit
Carpet Knitting Unit
Niwar Knitting Unit
School and Office Furniture Manufacturing Unit
The school and office furniture manufactured at the Jail is supplied to all educational institutions in the districts of Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, Lodhran and Rahim Yar Khan.
See also
Government of Punjab, Pakistan
Punjab Prisons (Pakistan)
Central Jail Faisalabad
Central Jail Lahore
Central Jail Mianwali
Prison Officer
Headquarter Jail
Central Jail Rawalpindi
District Jail Rawalpindi
District Jail Jhelum
National Academy for Prisons Administration
Punjab Prisons Staff Training Institute
References
External links
Official Website of Punjab Prisons (Pakistan)
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- New Central Jail Bahawalpur
- Borstal Institution and Juvenile Jail Bahawalpur
- Punjab Prisons (Pakistan)
- List of prisons
- Prisons in Pakistan
- List of tank truck explosions
- Tariq Bashir Cheema
- List of libraries in Pakistan
- Punjab Police (Pakistan)
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