Technical education for Central Jail inmates from Nov

KARACHI - Technical education for prisoners at Karachi Central Jail is expected to begin from November, while several industrial units either have been revived or opened in the Central Prison to make prisoners a useful law abiding citizens. Computer lab has been expanded, power looms which were shut down, now have been repaired, The Nation has learnt on Monday.

Informed sources said that power looms which were imported from Switzerland were shut down in 1997 in Karachi prison. After repairing and without spending a single penny it has produced more than 6,000 meters of cloth which is being sold out in the open market resultantly handsome amount have been paid to the prisoners.