KP to computerise prison record

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has decided to computerise its prison department`s record to streamline the procedures of the inmates` entry and release.
The decision was taken in a meeting that reviewed the Prisons Management Information System in Central Jail, Peshawar, in the Annual Development Plan under the chairmanship of provincial home secretary Muhammad Azam Khan here on Thursday.
Senior officials of the science and technology and information technology departments along with computer experts attended the meeting which was told that after the computerisation of the prisoners` database, details of their punishment, remission, appearance before the court, release and treatment on the premises could easily be checked online.
According to officials, the service record of the prison department`s employees, including tenure, posting and transfers, and disciplinary action against them by wardens and assistant deputy superintendents of jails, will also be available online.They said linking of all jails in the province through internet, installation of close-circuit television cameras in jails and provision of electronic security equipment to them had also been planned.
Officials said PC-1 of the computerisation of Peshawar Jail`s record would be revised to ensure that the province`s two central prisons in Peshawar and Haripur were computerised in the first phase at the same cost.