After unveiling many innovative plans for welfare of prisoners, Telangana Prisons Department has come out with the concept of Jail Tourism for people.
Under its new programme of ‘Feel the jail’, a citizen can rent a cell in the Heritage Jail and Museum in Sanga Reddy of Medak district. “The tourist can stay in the cell. He would be served the same food given to inmates of the prison,” Vinay Kumar Singh, Director General of Prisons Department and Correctional Services, said on Saturday. The tourist would get the real feel of a prison and has to follow the schedule of a prisoner. Feel of real prison life would dissuade people from indulging in wrong things, he said.
Soon, the department would organise an exhibition of articles produced by prisoners at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Shamshabad and in New Delhi.
