Maharashtra Prison Department

One is a convicted murderer while the other is serving time for theft. The two are among 145 prisoners in Maharashtra who were given reductions in their respective sentences for completing graduation, and post-graduation programmes.

The number of inmates in 60 jails in Maharashtra stood at 41,075 as on January 31, 2023, while the total capacity is 24,722, as per the Prison Department statistics.

The Maharashtra prison department plans to set up a multi-storeyed facility in Mumbai that can accommodate up to 5,000 inmates to ease the pressure on Arthur Road Jail there which is crowded and offers no scope for expansion, a senior official said.

As many as 198 inmates and 86 members of jail staff have tested positive for COVID-19 in Maharashtra prisons, the State Prison Department said on Thursday.

Women prisoners and inmates of open jails across Maharashtra can now make video calls to their families and relatives, said a senior official of the prison department of the state government.

The Maharashtra government has provided Rs 5 lakh as 'secret service fund' to the prisons department to improve intelligence gathering in jails, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis informed the state Legislative Council in Mumbai.

The Maharashtra Home Department has suspended the then prison superintendent of Nashik prison for granting parole to convict Sajjad Mogul, who was serving life sentence in the sensational Pallavi Purkayastha murder case and later went missing.

A pardon plea for actor Sanjay Dutt by Member of Parliament Jaya Prada and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh was forwarded by the Maharashtra Governor to the state home department seeking its opinion on March 28, a Raj Bhawan spokesperson said today. On Tuesday, Ms Prada and Mr Singh had met Governor K Sankaranarayanan requesting him to pard...

One is a convicted murderer while the other is serving time for theft. The two are among 145 prisoners in Maharashtra who were given reductions in their respective sentences for completing graduation, and post-graduation programmes.

The number of inmates in 60 jails in Maharashtra stood at 41,075 as on January 31, 2023, while the total capacity is 24,722, as per the Prison Department statistics.

The Maharashtra prison department plans to set up a multi-storeyed facility in Mumbai that can accommodate up to 5,000 inmates to ease the pressure on Arthur Road Jail there which is crowded and offers no scope for expansion, a senior official said.

As many as 198 inmates and 86 members of jail staff have tested positive for COVID-19 in Maharashtra prisons, the State Prison Department said on Thursday.

Women prisoners and inmates of open jails across Maharashtra can now make video calls to their families and relatives, said a senior official of the prison department of the state government.

The Maharashtra government has provided Rs 5 lakh as 'secret service fund' to the prisons department to improve intelligence gathering in jails, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis informed the state Legislative Council in Mumbai.

The Maharashtra Home Department has suspended the then prison superintendent of Nashik prison for granting parole to convict Sajjad Mogul, who was serving life sentence in the sensational Pallavi Purkayastha murder case and later went missing.

A pardon plea for actor Sanjay Dutt by Member of Parliament Jaya Prada and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh was forwarded by the Maharashtra Governor to the state home department seeking its opinion on March 28, a Raj Bhawan spokesperson said today. On Tuesday, Ms Prada and Mr Singh had met Governor K Sankaranarayanan requesting him to pard...