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Similarly, 46 prisons in the state lack working phone jammers. “I took charge in June and informed the government that CCTVs and jammers in all jails will start working properly by August 31,” he added.The ADG further pointed out that jammers in all jails will have to be upgraded as they are unable to render 4G phones unusable and efforts are on to ensure they also get covered. LUCKNOW: The killing of gangster Munna Bajrangi in Baghpat district jail on July 9 had exposed security lapses in jails. When TOI questioned ADG, prisons, Chandra Prakash, he said that CCTVs are not working properly in 30% jails.“In 2014-15, the state government had passed an order for upgrading all 70 prisons, primarily installing CCTVs and phone jammers by November 2017 and had also allocated funds but the upgradation is still going on,” said ADG Prakash. UP prisons department has one model jail, five central jails, 60 district jails, two sub jails, one Kishor Sadan in Bareilly and Nari Bandi Niketan at Lucknow.All central jails except the one at Naini, Model Jail of Lucknow, Nari Bandi Niketan and Kishor Sadan, Bareilly, are only for convicts who are proven guilty and awarded punishment.Naini Central Jail and all district jails and sub jails house undertrials also along with convicts..