The State Government has approved a revised jail manual, under which one guarding staff would be deployed for every six prisoners. As per the new manual, the prison administration shall ensure separation of different categories of prisoners such as civil prisoners, under-trials, female prisoners, convicted prisoners, young offenders, first offenders, habitual offenders and high security prisoners.
The prisons have been classified into three categories, Circle Jail, District Jail and Sub-Jail; and the authorised population for these prisons should be 1000, 500 and 300 prisoners, respectively.