Central Jail Karachi

{{Infobox prison

| name = Central Jail Karachi

|image = PK Karachi asv2020-02 img87 Central Prison.jpg

| caption = An outer view of Central Jail Karachi, Pakistan

| pushpin_map = Pakistan

| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Pakistan

| location = Karachi, Pakistan

| coordinates = {{coord|24.8600|N|67.0100|E|source:wikidata|display=title}}

| status = Operational

| classification = Maximum

| capacity =

| population = 4800{{cite web|url=http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page%3D2008%5C06%5C09%5Cstory_9-6-2008_pg12_8 |title=Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan |accessdate=2008-06-13 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110606172622/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C06%5C09%5Cstory_9-6-2008_pg12_8 |archivedate=2011-06-06 }}

| populationdate =

| opened = 1899

| closed =

| managed_by = Government of Sindh,

| warden =

}}

Central Jail Karachi, also known as Central Prison Karachi, is a prison in the city of Karachi in Sindh, Pakistan.{{Cite web|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/1626661/central-jail-karachi-prisoners-prisoners|title=Central Jail, Karachi — for the prisoners, by the prisoners|date=February 5, 2018|website=The Express Tribune}} It houses more than 4800 prisoners including convicted terrorists{{Cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/blog/2005/08/pakistan_in_the.html|title=FRONTLINE/WORLD . Dispatches . Dispatches . Pakistan: In the Land of Conspiracy Theories | PBS|website=www.pbs.org}} that include militants who attempted to assassinate President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf."[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2197406.stm Musharraf 'plotters' to be tried in jail]." BBC. Friday 16 August 2002. Retrieved on 27 November 2011.

History

Central 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.{{Cite web|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2390689/jails-bursting-at-seams-with-twice-the-population|title=Jails bursting at seams with twice the population|date=December 11, 2022|website=The Express Tribune}} 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

The 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).{{cite web|last=Masood |first=Tooba |url=http://tribune.com.pk/story/291037/criminal-application-jailbirds-may-be-behind-bars-but-art-sets-them-free/ |title=Criminal application: Jailbirds may be behind bars, but art sets them free - The Express Tribune |publisher=Tribune.com.pk |date=2011-11-13 |accessdate=2016-04-19}}

References

External links

[https://web.archive.org/web/20110606172622/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C06%5C09%5Cstory_9-6-2008_pg12_8 Drawing and painting exhibition held at Karachi Central Jail - Daily Times]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060527074000/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_22-6-2005_pg7_29 Overcrowded jails sheer hell for inmates - Daily Times]

Category:Buildings and structures in Karachi

Category:Prisons in Pakistan

Category:1899 establishments in British India