Central Jail Karachi, also known as Central Prison Karachi, is a prison in the city of Karachi in Sindh, Pakistan.[2] It houses more than 4800 prisoners including convicted terrorists[3] that include militants who attempted to assassinate President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf.[4]
 An outer view of Central Jail Karachi, Pakistan | |
  Location in Pakistan | |
| Location | Karachi, Pakistan |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 24°51′36″N 67°00′36″E / 24.8600°N 67.0100°E |
| Status | Operational |
| Security class | Maximum |
| Population | 4800[1] |
| Opened | 1899 |
| Managed by | Government of Sindh, |
History
editCentral Jail Karachi was established in the year 1899 for 591 prisoners while population of a newly growing city of Karachi was a little more than around hundred thousand people.[5] Now that the city boasts of having around 20 million inhabitants, the same CPK along with District Jail Malir is accommodating more than half of the entire Prison Population in the province of Sindh. (There are around 19000 inmates in 27 Prisons of the province out of which more than 10,000 are incarcerated in these two jails in the city of Karachi). The city requires at least one district jail in its every administrative district so that jails may be easily managed and inmates may get benefit from true correctional programs and initiatives.
Fine Arts School
editThe Fine Arts School was established in the prison in 2007 and a teacher named Sikandar Ali Jogi was hired to teach the prisoners art education to help them become useful citizens. This initiative was taken by Mr Nusrat Hussain Mangan, the then Superintendent of the jail (who later became DIG and then IG).[6]
References
edit- ^ "Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan". Archived from the original on 6 June 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2008.
- ^ "Central Jail, Karachi — for the prisoners, by the prisoners". The Express Tribune. 5 February 2018.
- ^ "FRONTLINE/WORLD . Dispatches . Dispatches . Pakistan: In the Land of Conspiracy Theories | PBS". www.pbs.org.
- ^ "Musharraf 'plotters' to be tried in jail." BBC. Friday 16 August 2002. Retrieved on 27 November 2011.
- ^ "Jails bursting at seams with twice the population". The Express Tribune. 11 December 2022.
- ^ Masood, Tooba (13 November 2011). "Criminal application: Jailbirds may be behind bars, but art sets them free - The Express Tribune". Tribune.com.pk. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
External links
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- Drawing and painting exhibition held at Karachi Central Jail - Daily Times
- Overcrowded jails sheer hell for inmates - Daily Times
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