Functioning of courts have become limited because of Covid 19. It had impacted on prison across the state, most of them are getting overcrowded because bail hearings had been affected. Count of inmates across Bihar is 50,000 while earlier number of inmates was 40,000 before covid.

Mithilesh Mishra IG of prison & correctional services said that inmate counts hacve increased because the courts are unable to function in full strength because of Covid 19 pandemic. It has affected the number of bails which courts used to grant normally in pre-covid-19 period. Authorities are taking urgent step to increase the capacity of jails to accommodate more inmates & to handle overcrowded jails.

He also said that we have increased the capacity of jails at Hajipur, Purnia, Gopalganj, Sherghati, the central jail in Gaya and few other places by acquiring new buildings where some small construction or finishing works were left to house the inmates. IG said with these steps they are taking will increase the sanctioned capacity to 44,920 from existing 42,222 at start of year.

New jails at Jamui, Aurangabad and Bhabhua with average capacity of housing around 1,100 inmates in them. Prisons statistic released recently by the NCRB, the IG said occupancy rates in central jails have been shown as beyond 100% because all inmates convicted for five years or more are shifted to these jails.

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