Inmates go gaga with telephones in Madhya Pradesh jails:
A study by Tinka Tinka Foundation
Telephones are now the only hope and the window of communication for inmates lodged in the jails of Madhya Pradesh. Due to the existing Covid-19 threat resulting in lockdown,visitations have been stopped in all jails across India. The only way of connecting with the outside world available to inmates is through telephones and they are finding relief through this technology.
The analysis selected 8 jails of Madhya Pradesh, namely Jabalpur (Central Jail), Indore (Central Jail), Sagar (Central Jail), Ujjain (Central Jail), Bhopal (Central Jail), Gwalior (Central Jail), Hoshangabad (Central Jail) and Indore (District Jail). All these 8 jails are representative jails of Madhya Pradesh, the second largest state in India in area and fifth largest in terms of population.
These are among the largest jails of MP, include women inmates and are over-crowded too. Analysis included the entire prison population of these jails, a sum total of nearly 15,698 inmates, including 14955 males and 743 female inmates.
This analysis is conducted by Vartika Nanda, the founder of Tinka Tinka Foundationin collaboration with Madhya Pradesh Prison Department. Tinka Tinka Foundation is working towards prison reforms in India. Analysis has been in collaboration with Madhya Pradesh Prison Department. A unique coffee table book on prisons, Tinka Tinka Madhya Pradesh, had made news in 2018.
The total number of landlines is 73 and the total number of mobile phones is 34 across all the jails. The phone density in the jails ranges from 231 inmates per phone in JabalpurCentral Jail to 111 inmates per phone in Ujjain Central Jail. Usage permission durations has been doubled during this period from 3 hrs to 6 hrs on a daily basis.
Madhya Pradesh Prison Department is perhaps only state in India to allow inmates to receive outward calls.
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During the present COVID-19 crisis, Tinka Tinka has covered a number of jails across India in its Tinka Jail News segment. The list began with covering jails in Rajasthan, then it covered the Agra Central Jail, jail in Madhya Pradesh, Montage, then it progressed to report about the four jails of Mau, Hamirpur, Meerut and Pilibhit it then covered the jail of Haldwani, Uttarakhand, the jail in Maharashtra, the jail in Chandigarh, Sonbhadra jail, jail in Hoshiarpur, Punjab and the latest news was centred around jails in Kerala. Strangely, all these prisons that are engaged in making masks and sanitisers, for themselves, for the government and private authorities, haven't been appreciated enough by most of the mediahouses. This initiative by Madhya Pradesh is a crucial step towards prison reforms. More states should come up with such steps. #vartikananda #jail #prison #tinkatinka
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. ,,,now unterstanding the meaning of these lines after seeing your videos and post mam and providing news of inmates in this hard times is commendable work i hope this telephone services help them to talk to there loved ones
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPCHcZxovW4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML8Xn0VHsOc&t=18s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HZstHV61kY
and the cheers to this inmate corona worriors
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This should surely continue even after the lock down… Good decision to provide telephone and mobile calls to the inmates so that they can know the whereabouts of their loved ones. #tinkatinka #jail #prison #vartikananda
To rehabilitate and reform the lives of prisoners this is a major step . The people in prison can Become lonely inside the jail. It is absolutely heart touching how you can perform such innovative tasks with such serenity. This is such a good and selfless work that you are doing ma'am.
Vartika ma'am is working really hard to make prisoner's life more serene as they are also human beings like us. It's something unique and out of the box thinking for the prisoners. Connecting them to their relatives by phone because the family can't meet them at this crucial time is a bold move.
#tinkatinka #humanrights #vartikananda
Tinka Tinka Prison reforms along with Vartika ma'am are doing a great job.They are conducting every possible initiative to abridge the gap between the prisoners and the society. They have left no stone unturned for the betterment of the prisoners. Kudos to the whole team.
Tinka Tinka Prison reforms along with Vartika ma'am are doing a great job.They are conducting every possible initiative to abridge the gap between the prisoners and the society. They have left no stone unturned for the betterment of the prisoners. Kudos to the whole team.