The State Government may boast about providing state-of-the-art facilities for prisoners in the State, but it is yet to provide an online facility for facilitating visits to prison inmates.
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Currently, as per Prisons Department officials, if any citizen has to visit an inmate, he has to manually submit an application either to the Inspector General of Prisons or to the respective prison superintendent. Following this, if the applicant does not have any relation with the inmate, the consent of the inmate to meet the applicant is sought. The entire process takes a minimum of four to eight days.
eprisons.nic.in, a national prisons information portal created by National Informatics Centre (NIC) provides facilities to book visits to inmates and statistical information about prison population, daily admissions, release, visits, among others. There are several states like Andhra Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand which are using
