Central Jail of Jharkhand starts intercom service for better communications of prisoners

Ranchi, January 3: Central Jail at Hazaribagh has started a new facility for prisoners. The Jail authorities have started intercom facility, the jail has become the second jail of the country where this facility is available for the jail inmates to talk with their friends or relatives.

Jail Superintendent Hamid Akhtar informed that previously the facility was available only in Tihar Jail, New Delhi. “We have installed 22 intercoms here and in the days to come its number will go up. Disturbance during the talk was a common problem which the inmates always raised before the administration.

In JP Central Jail every day about 500 to 1000 people come to meet the inmates. The jail administration brings 15-20 inmates at a time in a hall having four big windows.

Usually, 3 to 4 inmates talk with their relatives at a time from a window. Since the hall is not sound proof so the sound echoes and gets intermixed also.

The jail administration is also working on making this hall sound and echo proof. For it works is going on the inner walls to make it completely echo proof.

With the start of this service now inmates will freely communicate with their relatives because the service will provide the clear sound of both sides.