- Constant efforts are being made for putting the children accompanying their mother in reputed residential schools run by the NGOs. Twenty one such children have so far been admitted till date in the schools like R.K.Mission, Rahara, Holy Child School, Purulia, Cluny’s Convent, Kalimpong, Don Bosco Schools, Sri Ramakrishna Ashram, Nimpith Sarada Matri Sangha etc.
West Bengal prisons are goverened by the West Bengal Correctional Services Act, 1992
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Recreation for Children
- There is a children’s park with rides like merry-go-rounds, see-saws and other amusement facilities at Presidency Correctional Home where a large number of the children from Bangladesh are lodged with their mothers.
- The children are occasionally taken out for participation in sit & draw competitions with other children outside or for a picnic so that they can have a taste of outside freedom and normal childhood to the extent possible within the given constraints.
- Sporting activities for the children inside the correctional homes are now a regular practice.
Prisoners’ Children Living Back Home in the Community
Integrated Developmental Support Programme to Prisoners’ Children Living Back Home In The Community
Have you ever wondered what life is like for the children of prisoners?
Have you ever visited the homes of our convicts mostly situated in remote villages?
Have you ever met the children there living in the community, who for no fault of theirs, are ill-treated by society just because their parents have committed crimes?
We have. And then we decided to study the social, economic and psychological plight of the children of prisoners living in the community particularly those of convicts lodged in the correctional homes of the State. What we found was that these children are not only deprived of a normal childhood because of the lack of vital parental care, but the social stigma associated with their parent’s imprisonment makes them prone to exploitation of the worst kind. Physical and psychological abuse is something that they have to grow used to.
In order to alleviate the problems of the children, the West Bengal Correctional Services in partnership with National Legal Services Authority formulated a programme – Integrated Developmental Support to Prisoners’ Children Living Back Home in the Community. The basic idea was to pool together our resources and develop a support system for the prisoners’ children back home that endeavored to be a holistic programme, tackling the educational, health,