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Tihar Prisons
  Location in Delhi  Location in India | |
| Location | Tihar Village, New Delhi, India |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 28°37′03″N 77°06′02″E / 28.61750°N 77.10056°E |
| Status | Operating |
| Security class | Maximum |
| Capacity | 5,200(out of total 10,026 of other two jail) |
| Population | 14,059(out of total 20,458 of other two jail)[1] (as of 31 December 2023) |
| Opened | 1957 |
| Managed by | Department of Delhi Prisons |
| Website | tiharprisons |
Tihar Prisons, popularly known as Tihar Jail, is a prison complexes in India and one of the largest complexes of prisons in India. It has 9 functional prisons spread over more than 400 acres.[2][3] Run by Department of Delhi Prisons, the prison contains nine central prisons, and is one of the three prison complexes in Delhi. The other two prison complexes are at Rohini and Mandoli with one and six central prisons respectively.[4] Tihar prison complex is located in Janakpuri, approximately 3 km from Tihar village in West Delhi.
The prison is styled as a correctional institution. Its main objective is to convert its inmates into ordinary members of society by providing them with useful skills, education, and respect for the law. It aims to improve the inmates' self-esteem and strengthen their desire to improve. To engage, rehabilitate, and reform its inmates, Tihar uses music therapy, which involves music training sessions and concerts.[5] The prison has its own radio station, run by inmates.[6] There is also a prison industry within the walls, manned wholly by inmates, which bears the brand Tihar.[7] As of December 2023[update], Tihar jail has 14,059 inmates against the sanctioned capacity of 5,200. The prison population as of 31 December 2023 has increased by double in comparison to the population as of 31 December 2018.[1][8]
- ^ a b "Department of Tihar Prisons". Government of Delhi. Retrieved 22 December 2020.
- ^ Tihar jail factsheet, TiharPrisons.delhi.gov.in, Retrieved 2023-05-09.
- ^ Tihar prison in India: More dovecote than jail. The Economist (5 May 2012). Retrieved 2012-05-31.
- ^ "Official Website of Central Jail, Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi, India". tiharprisons.delhi.gov.in. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
- ^ "Now, a Tihar Idol". The Times of India. 10 June 2012. Archived from the original on 26 January 2013.
- ^ "Tihar gets its own radio station – TJ FM Radio". The Economic Times. 30 July 2013. Archived from the original on 3 October 2015. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- ^ Mukharji, Arunoday (4 February 2007) "Brand Tihar is serious business" "CNN-IBN". Ibnlive.com (20 June 2007). Retrieved 2012-05-31.
- ^ 25 crime lords, 160 gangs: Why Delhi jails are a security nightmare.Hindustan times (December 2023).
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