A mobile phone repair workshop has been opened at the Central Prison in Peshawar for the prisoners.

It was considered a first step towards rehabilitating and enabling the prisoners capable enough to begin new lives once they finish their sentence in jail. Shahidullah—Inspector General of Prisons (IGP) at the inauguration ceremony of the workshop mentioned that this is an initiative for the prisoners’ lives after they are released from jail.

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He informed that initially in the first phase, five adults and five young prisoners would be given the training by instructors—who were also in jail previously. The IGP added that this would help the prisoners for restarting their lives in a better way rather than returning back to crimes again.

The new prison building would be inaugurated in April and would have the capacity to accommodate two thousand two hundred convicts.

Ikramullah—the Home Secretary noted that a computerised documentation system for the prisoners has also begun. It was added by the Home Secretary that the procedure is simple—it is a one window operation where photos are clicked, and fingerprints are taken, and the medical examination is also done.

Shahidullah added that very soon they would be releasing a tender for buying jammers along with CCTV camera for keeping a check on the prisoners around the clock.

He informed that routine searches are conducted now and then, and CCTVs would further be consolidating our hard works. He also informed that eighty-four prison guards had been given training by the security forces in modern technology and it proved super helpful.

He informed that the mobile repairing courses offered are of the duration of one month and three months.

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