Prisoners shifted to new jail

Yesterday, prisoners were shifted from the old jail, established in Pirojpur town in 1918, to the new jail beside Pirojpur-Nazirpur road at Khumuria village under Pirojpur municipality.

The new jail is situated on 9.5 acres of land. It has capacity of holding 450 prisoners -- 420 male and 30 female.

Pirojpur Public Works Department built it at a cost of Tk 39.39 crore. Its construction work began in July 2011. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the new jail on November 1 last year with some other development works through a video conference.

The old jail had capacity to accomodate only 177 prisoners, but there would be more than twice the number in the jail all the year round.

“We have successfully completed shifting the prisoners to the new jail from the old one under high security,” said Pirojpur Jail Superintendent Md Shamim Iqbal.