Pune: New Prison Proposed For Undertrial Inmates To Decongest Yerwada Central Jail
Pune, 27 February 2021: The Yerwada Central Jail is overcrowded with double inmates than its capacity currently lodged there. Therefore, a new jail will be built only for under-trial prisoners in the space adjacent to the jail in Yerwada. The Public Works Department (PWD) has sent a proposal of Rs 175 crores.
DIG of Prisons (West) Yogesh Desai said that given the number of inmates in Yerwada Central Jail, there is a need for a new jail here. Therefore, such a proposal has been prepared.
The current structure of the Yerwada Central Jail
- Total area of 65 acres
- 2,323 prisoner capacity
- 5,500 prisoners
- Circle One, Three, and Tilak Yard have eight barracks each
- Circle two has six barracks
- There are three barracks in the juvenile section
- Separate arrangements for inmates hanged in Anda Cells
- Thirty percent are permanent prisoners and seventy percent are undertrial prisoners
Design of new building
- The proposed prison building will have a ground floor and a first floor.
- On the opposite side will be the administrative building, the office of the senior prison officer, and the prison officer.
- The central area will have a central kitchen, mill, two barracks next to the kitchen, granary, hospital, laboratory, medicine room, medical officer’s room, fifty-window interview room, library, waiting room .etc.
Proposed prison for undertrial inmates
- 30 acres total area
- 3000 prisoner capacity
- 30 rooms for prisoners
