Capital’s First Modern Prison will be completed Soon

News Desk

ISLAMABAD: The construction of the modern prison in Sector H-16 Islamabad is underway and it would be completed soon, resolving the problem of district administration and Capital police.

The project Construction of Model Prison at H-16 Islamabad was approved by ECNEC on July 20, at a cost of Rs.3.9 billion. More than Rs. 2 billion has been spent so far on the project while an amount of Rs. 350 million has been allocated in Public Sector Development Program this year (PSDP 2022-23), an official source mentioned.

He said that Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has formed a six-member committee headed by Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah to review the prison project and ensure its completion in the next fiscal year. Currently, Adiala Jail is housing Islamabad’s share of prisoners as the capital has no jail.

The ICT administration also wants its own jail as it is becoming increasingly problematic for the police to transport prisoners to and from Rawalpindi after court hearings.

The Islamabad jail complex is being constructed on 90-acre in Sector H-16 near the motorway. The jail will have space for 2,000 inmates and will be equipped with a 22-bed hospital, a school for the children of the jail employees, a mosque, a library, an auditorium, segregated cells and separate barracks for women and juvenile prisoners. The complex will also have a training facility for prison officials.

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