The Department of Prisons has taken another initiative to turn the prisons from more than detention facilities for convicts, to correctional facilities that will help them reform. The prisoners will get mobile phone facilities to keep in touch with their near and dear ones under a government project named “Prison Link.”Tangail District Jail is getting the facility as a pilot project. The mobile phone service will be launched at the jail, as soon as an inauguration date is fixed jointly by the Inspector General of Prison and the Home Ministry. Each freshly arrived convict will be able to provide two phone numbers to the prison authority. However, the convicts will not be able to dial just any phone number, or receive phone calls from outside the prison.

Source: Dhaka Tribune February 08, 2018 04:30 UTC