Archive · 3 Aug 2025
Visakhapatnam Jail Production Units Boost Inmates' Skills & Profits
The Visakhapatnam Central Jail is teaching prisoners valuable skills so they can get jobs when they are released.
They have ten workshops where inmates learn things like making furniture, weaving, and baking.
Some of these workshops are making money, like the one that makes steel furniture.
The jail superintendent says these programs help prisoners learn skills and earn money.
Prisoners who behave well and show they've changed might even have their sentences shortened.
Visakhapatnam Central Jail operates ten production units to provide inmates with vocational skills.
Five units, including steel furniture and dairy, have generated profits.
The steel furniture unit generated ₹1.35 crore in income and ₹17 lakh in profit in fiscal year 2024-25.
Inmates are encouraged to participate in vocations based on their skills and preferences.
Positive behavior can lead to sentence reductions for inmates.
- Who
- Inmates and the jail staff
- What
- The Visakhapatnam Central Jail is running production units to teach inmates skills.
- When
- Fiscal year 2024-25
- Where
- Visakhapatnam Central Jail
- Why
- To provide inmates with vocational skills and to generate revenue.
- Production Units
- 10
- Steel Furniture Unit Income
- ₹1.35 crore
- Steel Furniture Unit Profit
- ₹17 lakh
- Dairy Unit Profit
- ₹3.2 lakh
- Weaving and Dyeing Profit
- ₹1.6 lakh
- Bakery Unit Profit
- ₹2 lakh
- Agriculture Unit Profit
- ₹76,000