Govt wants prisons to function as correction centres: Minister

State Minister for Home Asaduzzaman Khan said Tuesday the government wants  prisons to function as correction centres involving prisoners in various productive programmes to reduce the risks of repeated crimes, reports UNB.
He mentioned programmes such as skill development training, drug rehabilitation, counselling, and educational course while serving their sentences with a goal to bring positive changes in their lives.
"We believe this will contribute to the rehabilitation of prisoners and hopefully also reduce the risks of repeated crimes," Khan said.
The state minister made the observations while speaking at the inaugural session of a two-day workshop titled 'We have not forgotten you - Pathways for Rehabilitation of Prisoners' in the city, said a GIZ media release.
The multi-stakeholder workshop was arranged to build effective partnerships for a sustainable rehabilitation process of inmates and released prisoners in Bangladesh as part of 'Improvement of the Real Situation of Overcrowding in Prisons in Bangladesh (IRSOP)', a project implemented by the Ministry of Home Affairs.
The German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the British Department for International Development (DFID) and the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacionaly Desarollo (AECID) from Spain have commissioned the Deutsche Gesellschaftfür Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH to carry out this project, in partnership with the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Prison Directorate.