Tihar Jail Gets De-Addiction Centre
Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit today inaugurated a new 120-bed drug de-addiction centre with a pathological laboratory and counseling facilities at the Tihar Jail//, one of Asia’s biggest prisons having over 13,000 inmates. The centre, which is present in the jail hospital premises, was built at a cost of Rs.17 million. ..It is the biggest centre of its kind to be started in any jail in t...New Delhi: Nearly 10 percent of jailbirds at Tihar jail, home to over 14,000 prisoners, are drug addicts, according to the prison director general B.K. Gupta//. ...."It's not very good statistics but nearly 10 percent of our inmates are drug addicts. They have been taking drugs before being lodged in Tihar," Gupta told reporters. ...."Over 61 percent of the addicts were used to drugs for more th...The number of HIV cases among the inmates of Tihar Jail in the national capital has increased three-fold in the past five years, an official report// said here Thursday. ....In 2006, 36 inmates were found suffering from the disease as compared to 12 in 2002, Minister of State for Home Affairs S. Regupathy told the Rajya Sabha Thursday. ....He said that regular health screening camps are being o...