CENTRAL JAIL HOSPITAL

LOCATION

Location	Hari Nagar, New Delhi
Bus Routes
Police Station	Hari Nagar
Nearest Metro Station

INTRODUCTION

Correctional programmes in prisons in nearly all parts of the globe show a significant trend towards specialisation, diversification and experimentation. Another important trend is the substitution of the individualized treatment to prisoners based on their reformative requirements for the earlier doctrine of equal punishment for same crime. The third major trend in prison administration involves an attempt to reduce the social barrier between inmates of the correctional institutions and the civilian community. There is also increasing interest in the possibility that the society or groups of prisoners can be utilised for therapeutic purposes. Group therapeutic and other devices aimed at increasing inmates participation in the routine affairs of prison administration are designed to reduce the barrier between the society and the administrative policy and to give the inmates desired degree of self-esteem and confidence.

Tihar Prisons have a history of reformation programmes in tune with the current correctional philosophy. Education, Cultural activities, Vocational activities and Moral Education etc. have been going on in Tihar Jails for a long time as a part of the efforts of the Prison Administration for reformation of the prisoners. In the last five years the process has accelerated and received world wide attention. The reformation package tried out by the Delhi Prison Administration is popularly termed as "New Delhi correctional model", the basic characteristics of which are:

Bringing the community into the prison,
Formation of a self-sufficient community of prisoners,
Participative management.
This model strikes a balance between the approaches of "Privatisation of Prison administration" and the "Half way houses". The New Delhi correctional Model has been presented and discussed in Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Branch at UNO, Vienna and other international and national conferences. It has been deeply appreciated.

Tihar Jail Complex in New Delhi is one of the largest prison complexes in the world. It comprises of seven prisons in the Tihar Complex with a total population of around 12927 prisoners against a sanction capacity of 4000 prisoners. In a year about 70,000-80,000 prisoners remain lodged in these seven prisons for different duration. This prison population has about 80% undertrials and includes about 568 women prisoners with about 49 children below 6 years of age dependent upon them. About 362 prisoners are foreigners.

CONTACT US

In case of any problem in various jails the following officers can be contacted:-

Director General of Prisons	25555897
Deputy Inspector General of Prisons	25555898
Superintendent Jail No.1	25555106
Superintendent Jail No.2	25621610
Superintendent Jail No.3	25551570
Superintendent Jail No.4	25554216
Superintendent Jail No.5	25621609
Superintendent Jail No.6	25524936
Superintendent Jail No.7	25549986
Superintendent PHQ	25549986
Control Room	25551589/ 25553404/ 25555305