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The Revenue Department has identified 86 acres astatine Mallamooppampatti in Salem territory to construct a caller territory situation and has sent a proposal to the government.
The Salem Central Prison, constructed by the British successful 1862 connected 113.19 acres, has a jailhouse annex constructed successful 1934. The authorised accommodation astatine the situation is 1,431. A sub-jail came up astatine Attur successful 1901 and it was upgraded arsenic territory situation successful 2008 with an further gathering constructed astatine ₹1.32 crore. The Attur territory situation was handed implicit to the Revenue Department this year, and it is presently a campy for Bangladeshi prisoners.
The Revenue Department identified 86 acres of onshore astatine Mallamooppampatti connected Steel Plant Road to make a territory prison, a women’s situation and an open-air prison. The Department has recommended it to the State authorities for its consent. Works volition commence aft getting the authorities approval, said authoritative sources.
Officials attached to Tamil Nadu Prisons and Correctional Department said the Prison Director General of Police (DGP), Inspector General of Police (IG) and Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) inspected the identified onshore .
They pointed retired that 3 acres of the Attur territory situation and 4 acres of the Central situation would beryllium with the Revenue Department for the campy for Bangladeshi prisoners and a territory room respectively. Similarly, the women’s situation earlier the cardinal situation (two acres) and open-air situation (10.45 acres astatine Jahir Ammapalayam) volition besides beryllium transferred to the Revenue Department.
The situation officials added that the program was to conception a caller territory situation connected 25 acres, a women’s situation connected 15 acres and an open-air situation connected 10 acres astatine Mallamooppampatti.
