Bhubaneswar: Jail inmates in Odisha will soon get an opportunity to watch patriotic and motivational movies on Sundays besides enjoying soothing music in their cells every day, officials said.
The facilities are being provided to prisoners as part of the implementation of the “Odisha Model Jail Manual-2020″ said DG (Prisons) S K Upadhyay.
Inmates of the special jail here were the first to get the facilities from Sunday. These schemes will be extended to other prisons of the state gradually, an official said.
Odisha has a total of 91 jails currently housing around 8,000 inmates.
“A projector along with a large screen and a sound system has been installed in a room having 100 seating capacity for the entertainment of prisoners,” a senior official of the special jail here said.
He said that patriotic and motivational movies and those with good moral value will be screened every Sunday to make the inmates stress free.
Besides, awareness programmes relating to issues…