Interi­or minist­er insist­s new jail will be a correc­tional facili­tyISLAMABAD: Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal on Thursday inaugurated work on the long-awaited prison in the capital. Spread over 90 acres in Sector H-16, the Islamabad Model Prison is estimated to cost the taxpayers Rs3.9 billion to lock up around 2,000 inmates. Iqbal further directed the chief commissioner and others concerned to complete construction work on the prison by 2019. Explaining the philosophy of calling it a ‘correctional centre’, Iqbal explained that sometimes people who get sent to jails come out as criminals because they are at times exposed to criminal networks in jails. Work on this project, he suggested, could start next year as he promised air-conditioned buses for the city.

Source: The Express Tribune February 23, 2018 05:03 UTC