Initiating reforms in Haryana prisons, 4,500 prison inmates were enrolled for different educational programmes being run in the jails with the help of Indira Gandhi National Open University, National Institute of Open Schooling, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan and other such institutions in 2013.
A spokesman of Prisons Department said that DTH and Cable TV facility have been provided in all the barracks in all jails in order to improve recreational facilities for inmates. This would help in reducing the stress level of the prisoners.
He said that a new Central Jail-II, Hisar has been made operational in order to reduce overcrowding in the prisons of the State. Haryana is now one of few states where there is no overcrowding. In order to streamline granting of parole facility to contact with outside work, the Haryana Good Conduct Prisoners (Temporary Release) Act, 1988 has been got amended. It has increased satisfaction level among prisoners and their relatives outside the jails.
The spokesman said that all the posts lying vacant for years in the rank of wardens, head wardens, Assistant Superintendent Jails and Deputy Superintendent Jails have been filled up. Website of the Department has been launched and up-to-date information has been made available on it for the citizens, he added.