Staff in Haryana jails facing challenge due to large number of hard core criminals including Kashmiri youths arrested while throwing stones on security forces and damaging public properties in Kashmir valley arrested, locked in Jammu-Kashmir jails has been shifted to jails in Haryana state. Haryana state government has deployed senior jail wardens, staff inside these jails and Central Reserve Police Forces (CRPF) in as well as outside these jails in order to maintain law and order. Information reveals, maximum number of criminals locked in Jammu-Kashmir jails have been shifted to Bhondsi jail Gurugram, Neemika jail Faridabad, Sunaria jail Rohtak and central jail Ambala already packed with prisoners and facing shortage of security staff.
Information reveals that most of the jails in Haryana are already facing acute shortage of space to accommodate prisoners having number of prisoners in these jails more than the capacity since out of total number of 20 district jails in Haryana more than 14 jails are already over packed having 25837 prisoners against total capacity to accommodate 20638 prisoners. Moreover, jail staff in Haryana facing lot of inconvenience to handle such prisoners transferred from jails in Kashmir due to language problems since most of the prisoners migrated from Jammu-Kashmir unable to speak or understand any language other than Kashmiri. In case of Bhondsi jail Gurugram there are 2830 prisoners lodged in this jail against total capacity for 2412 prisoners which include nearly 100 female prisoners having six children inside the jail.
According to available district-wise data as regard jails in Haryana state, there are 2830 prisoners lodged in Bhondosi jail Gurugram against capacity of 2412 prisoners, 2521 prisoners in Ambala central jail against capacity of 1228 prisoners, 1965 prisoners in Hisar central jail against capacity of 1499 prisoners, 1952 prisoners in Sunaria jail Rohtak against capacity of 1300 prisoners, 2119 prisoners in Karnal jail against capacity of 2434 prisoners, 850 prisoners in Bhiwani jail against capacity of 561 prisoners, 1248 prisoners in Sirsa jail against capacity of 807 prisoners, 1260 prisoners in Sonipat jail against capacity of 745 prisoners, 1153 prisoners in Jind jail against capacity of 1047 prisoners, 711 prisoners in Kurukshetra jail against capacity of 445 prisoners, 519 prisoners in Narnaul jail against capacity of 350 prisoners, 63 prisoners in Rewari jail against capacity of 66 prisoners, 796 prisoners in Kaithal jail against capacity of 575 prisoners, 3150 prisoners in Faridabad jail against capacity of 2500 prisoners, 1225 prisoners in Yamunanagar jail against capacity of 1200 prisoners, 70 prisoners in Palwal jail against capacity of 60 prisoners, 1529 prisoners in Panipat jail against capacity of 870 prisoners, 1370 prisoners in Jhajjar jail against capacity of 1074 prisoners and 700 prisoners in Nuh jail against capacity of 954 prisoners.
