The Udayapur Jail, which has a capacity of 50, currently houses 232 prisoners. The building's roof and walls are cracked, increasing the risk, and the situation is further complicated by budget constraints.
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The Udayapur Jail, which has a capacity of 50, has been facing management problems as the number of prisoners is more than four times its capacity. The district jail, built in 2036 BS at Box 10, Triyuga Municipality, currently houses 222 male and 10 female prisoners.
The prison administration has stated that the risk has increased due to the dilapidated physical structures including the roof and walls of the prison building. Although a DPR was prepared and submitted to the Ministry of Finance four years ago for the construction of a 200-person capacity prison, the ministry did not allocate budget, so the prisoners were forced to live in the dilapidated building at risk, said prison administrator Ujjwal Subedi.
"It is very inconvenient to have more than four times as many prisoners in a prison with a capacity of 50, and the risk is the same because the building is dilapidated," he said. He said that the space is small, making it difficult to do activities such as sports and physical exercise.
There are currently 138 men and 6 women in Udayapur Prison who are serving their sentences after the court's verdict. There are 84 men and 4 women who are on remand while the case is pending in the court. According to the prison administration, 14 are chronically ill and need to take regular medication.
According to the prison administration, there is a post of a senior officer for general health treatment of prisoners, while complex patients are taken to the district hospital and other hospitals for treatment, said prison administrator Subedi.
He said that the government's attention should be drawn to the fact that the daily allowance of Rs 80 received by the prisoners from the state is not enough for them. 'The prisoners receive only Rs 80 per day from the state, including two meals a day, breakfast and lunch, which is insufficient for them,' he said. 'The families who can afford it send food and lunch expenses from home, but there is a problem for prisoners from poor families.'
Although prisoners escaped from other prisons in the incident on Bhadra 24, he said that such an incident did not occur because the officers/brothers who were handling the internal administration of Udayapur Prison were of good character.
However, out of the 92 prisoners who escaped from various prisons in the country, 16 have been found by the police and taken into custody, said Prison Administrator Subedi. According to him, 10 of those found have been sent to the relevant prisons and 6 are being kept in Udayapur Prison.
Skill-based training such as weaving shawls and making hats has been conducted for the prisoners to earn income, and arrangements have been made to take the goods they produce to the market.
