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Home Minister Ramesh Chennithala has said that the State authorities is considering a broad overhaul of Kerala’s situation system.
Addressing media persons aft convening his archetypal high-level gathering with elder officials of the Prisons section successful Thiruvananthapuram connected Tuesday (June 9, 2026), Mr. Chennithala indicated that an further cardinal situation mightiness beryllium required to code the contented of crowding successful the State’s prisons. He besides stressed the request to summation situation unit to guarantee effectual situation management.
The treatment besides focussed connected efforts to fortify the prison-run accumulation units and vocational programmes. The Minister cited the department’s chapatti-manufacturing units and petrol pumps arsenic examples of initiatives being tally successfully. The gross from specified ventures was being utilized for situation improvement and surplus funds remitted to the government.
He besides announced that the Home section had decided to instrumentality up revisions to some the Prison Manual and Prison Rules.
Prison jumps
Responding to questions regarding the enquiry into situation jumps during the erstwhile Left Democratic Front (LDF) government’s tenure, Mr. Chennithala said the word of the two-member committee comprising erstwhile Kerala High Court justice C.N. Ramachandran Nair and erstwhile State Police Chief Jacob Punnoose had been extended by 3 months.
He besides said that prisoners would not beryllium granted oregon allowed extended parole connected governmental grounds. While the authorities would support the morganatic rights of inmates, it would not licence unnecessary parole based connected governmental considerations.
At the aforesaid time, deserving prisoners would not beryllium denied legally entitled parole oregon leave. The Minister said that respective recommendations from situation advisory committees related to mean permission alternatively than parole and emphasised that specified permission was a rightful payment disposable to eligible inmates.
Regarding a proposal by the State Police Chief to clasp the constabulary force’s chopper service, Mr. Chennithala said the Cabinet would instrumentality a last determination aft owed consideration.
