Specialized vocational training centres in prisons [January 08 2011]

Prisons will be converted to specialized vocational training centers to train prisoners on specialized areas, Prison’s Commissioner General Maj. Gen. V.R. Silva said.

He said the Ministry has taken this decision to facilitate the convicted prisoners to find employment upon release. Under the new move, the training centres will be set up in each prison to give the convicted prisoners a specific training.

Out of 27,000 prison population, 12,000 prisoners will be given vocational training.