GAZIPUR: The government has set up a garment factory inside the jail to rehabilitate the prisoners.

Inspector General of Prisons Brigadier General (Retd) Ashraful Islam Khan inaugurated the factory at Kashimpur central jail at 12:00 noon Wednesday.

Primarily, the factory started its operation with 40 machines.

Replying to a question, Ashraful Islam said after fulfilling demands of jail insiders, the product will be sold outside. Then the prisoners who would work in the factory would be provided with an amount of salary during their release from jail.
 
Deputy Inspector General of Prisons (IG-Prisons) Brig Gen Golam Haider, senior jail super Jahangir Kabir Jailer Subhash Kumar Ghos and jail supers of four units of the jail were also present.

BDST: 1535 HRS, SEP 25, 2013
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