Mumbai: US-based Harvard University will take up a training programme for Maharashtra jail officials next year on various issues ranging from inmates’ welfare to the renaming of prisons as ‘Correction Homes’.
“The University has agreed in principle to take up a customised programme next year. The programme will be as per our requirement on surveillance, jail security and inmates’ welfare. Superintendent and DIG rank officials will be selected to attend the programme. American officers will also be part of it,” Principal Secretary (Home) Vijay Satbir Singh told PTI.
“We too are going to call our jails ‘Sudhar Griha’ and the jails will also have a department of correction,” Singh said.
