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Correctional Services

All Jails have been designated as Correctional Homes in the state and are now governed by the West Bengal Correctional Services Act, 1992.

West Bengal Jail Code

Those provisions of the Civil Procedure Code, 1908, the Criminal Procedure Code, 1898 and the Indian Penal Code which relate to the confinement of prisoners, the execution of sentences, appeals, lunatics and the like, must also be complied with in connection with the prison administration.

Precautionary Measures in Correctional Homes due to Corona

(i) To ensure screening of every prisoners during each admission from outside; (ii) To immediate refer to outside Government Hospital in the cases showing any symptom of virus infection; (iii) To keep prisoners who were close proximity of the suspected prisoners with cough and fever, in isolation cell;
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