“We are coming up with new ideas as well as making new buildings in the prisons,” Hasina told the home ministry officials. The prime minister said her government has already begun training inmates and getting them to produce goods on a limited scale. Different countries in the world engage inmates in commercial production of goods. Prisons in Bangladesh will become correction centres, not what we mean by conventional prisons,” Md Iqbal Hasan, an additional IG of prisons, told bdnews24.com. Out of the around 93,000 inmates in the prisons, 17.22 percent are convicted and most of them are aged between 18 and 60, according to Iqbal.

Source: bd News24 January 20, 2019 22:18 UTC