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| Govt. makes jail women , children friendly | | NEW Jail Mannual | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, May 23- In order to facilitate female prisoners and their children, the State Government has amended the Manual for the superintendence and management of jails in Jammu and Kashmir.
According to a notification issued by the Home Department, a child with its mother is not a prisoner and is entitled to food, shelter, medical care, clothing, education and recreational facilities as a matter of right.
Before sending a woman, who is pregnant, to jail, it shall be ensured that the jail in question had the maximum basic facilities for child delivery as well as for providing prenatal and postnatal care for mother and child, the notification states, adding the facilities of District Government Hospital must be availed. As far as possible, remedies shall be made available to pregnant female prisoner to have delivery outside the prison and where birth takes place in prison; only the name of the locality shall be recorded with the birth registration office.
Following the amendment, a female prisoner shall be allowed to keep her child till it attains the age of six years. Thereafter, the child shall be handed over to suitable surrogate as per the wishes of the mother or shall be sent to suitable institution run by the Social Welfare Department. The children admitted outside the jail shall be allowed to meet their mother in the jail once a week.
The child shall be given proper education and recreation opportunities and shall be kept in crèche or nursery, which shall preferably be run outside the main prison premises. Every child who is allowed to remain with his/her mother in the jail shall be provided the facility of crèche/nursery and visitation by relatives and NGOs.
Under the amended Manual, the children will be provided diet as per medical norms and calorific requirements which will include cereals and millets, pulses, milk, roots and tubers, green leafy vegetables, fruits, sugar, fats and oils, with an increase in the scale of food as per their age.
The amendment adds that children in jails shall be provided adequate clothing as per local climatic requirements along with toys and pre-nursery coaching in jail.
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