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Undertrial prisoners found with mobiles inserted in rectum

Kolkata: State correctional administration department is concerned over a few recent incidents in which undertrial prisoners were found to have entered the correctional homes with China-made small mobile phones being inserted in their rectums.

The correctional administration department has become more cautious while allowing the undertrial prisoners into various jails, after the incidents came to light.

The department is examining if such incidents occurred due to the negligence of the wardens in the correctional homes.

The department came to know the matter after two undertrial prisoners in separate incidents entered presidency central correctional home with a China-made small mobile phone inside their rectum. The department suspects that the prisoners got the mobile phones during the process of being produced in court.

Earlier, it was often alleged that the undertrial prisoners or the convicts got access to mobile phones inside the correctional homes.

It was also alleged that in some cases the convicts established contacts with their associates outside giving them instructions.

According to sources in the state correctional administration department, the checking processes will be made more stringent to stop such incidents.

The department will also fix the responsibility on the staff members of the correctional homes if they are found guilty.

"We are trying to identify how the undertrial prisoners entered into the correctional home with small size Chinese mobile phone inside their rectum. Steps would be taken if negligence is found on the part of any staff members of the correctional home," a senior official of the department said.

It may be mentioned that the department had recently shifted the Alipore Central Correctional Home to Baruipur for the security reasons for safety reasons.

The 109-year-old Alipore Central correctional home closed down in February this year and all of its inmates were shifted to other correctional homes.

The department has intensified the security system in all the correctional homes and checked the entry of various narcotic substances into the jails.

The inmates often used to indulge in the consumption of these substances inside the jails evading the eyes of correctional home officials. But through the adoption of various stringent measures such incidents have been checked.

The department has taken up a comprehensive programme to involve the inmates in various activities so that they can return to the mainstream of life.

Various vocational trainings are being imparted among the jail inmates. In many correctional homes the inmates are already producing various handicrafts. Efforts have been taken by the department conduct computer literacy and many other programmes in the correctional homes.

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