Twenty cottages have been built in the campus where prisoners are staying with their families. These are not merely cottages but two room flats with separate kitchen and attached bathroom having a small garden. Equipped with fans and electricity these cottages have enough space to undertake income generation activities by the inmates. These cottages are actually half way homes, where prisoners can interact with their families and learn some trade before release from the correctional home.
West Bengal prisons are goverened by the West Bengal Correctional Services Act, 1992
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Release Of Prisoners In Open Air Correctional Home On Parole
- A prisoner accommodated in an open correctional home may, with the prior approval of the IG of Correctional Services, be granted leave on parole for a period not exceeding fifteen days at a time and not more than twice a year to enable him to be with his family.
- If the leave on parole admissible to a prisoner in any year has been exhausted, the IG of Correctional Services may, as a special case, grant such prisoner leave on parole for such period as he may deem fit on grounds of serious illness or death of a near relative or natural calamity or any other emergency.
Every prisoner accommodated in a ‘C’ type correctional home shall be-
- supplied with food, free of cost, for three months from the date of his entry into such home.
- assisted by the Superintendent in obtaining small trade loan from the State Bank of India or any nationalized bank guaranteed by the State Government for repayment of the loan to be utilized exclusively for the purchase of working implements and raw materials for cottage industry.
- allowed to go to market or to probable customers for selling of goods produced by him and to come back within 7 p.m.
- allowed to go to a local mela or other congregational amusement as a visitor or to display his products for sale;
- allowed on his release, to take with him the implements of work.
- after three months from the date of his entry into a C type correctional home, required to arrange food out of his income from his industry and may live with his family comprising of five members at a time who contribute to the maintenance of the family, either by participating in such industry or out of the income from any other avocation.
- after one year from the date of his entry into a ‘C’ type correctional home, required to contribute to of the income from his industry to the maintenance of the correctional home at such rate as may be prescribed.
Family Cottages
We have plans of constructing more cottages to extend such facilities to larger number of inmates. We propose to send such female convicts in future as well to this Open Air Correctional Home cottages if they satisfy all conditions and have families to accompany them.
