Kolkata: In a bid to give jail inmates some amount of freedom, West Bengal government has decided to set up an “Open Correctional Home” at Durgapur in Burdwan district, the second such home in the state for convicts.
“Only prisoners in their fag end of serving jail terms would be lodged in this home and they will be free to come and go outside, mix with their families and earn livelihood on their own,” state minister for Correctional Administration Department Haider Aziz Safwi said.
He said while the first open correctional home at Lalbag in Murshidabad district has a capacity to lodge 80 inmates, 30 such prisoners would be kept at the Durgapur facility.
