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Coimbatore: The Coimbatore Central Prison has decided to set up a departmental store, manned by convict prisoners, on Dr Nanjappa Road at Gandhipuram .

Named Freedom Filling Station, it is located on Ambattur Road here at Puzhal, abutting the Special Prison for Women (SPW-Puzhal). It will go a long way in reforming and rehabilitating the convicts, the Tamil Nadu prison department said.

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The nation's first retail fuel outlet run by women convicts who are still serving their prison sentences was inaugurated in Chennai on Friday by Tamil Nadu Minister for Law and Prisons S Regupathy.

A retail outlet vending various products made by jail inmates at a very affordable price was inaugurated by Tamil Nadu Minister for Law, Courts, Prisons and Correctional Services S. Reghupathy on Friday here.Branded as 'Freedom', the new Prison ...

The oldest prisoner at Guantanamo Bay Saifullah Paracha has been released and sent back to Pakistan after nearly 20 years.  Pakistan's foreign ministry reportedly confirmed the news of the release. The ministry in its statement stated, "We are glad that a Pakistani citizen detained abroad is finally reunited with his family." He returned to Pakistan on October 29. 

Brisk sale of sugarcane raised by convicts Updated: Updated: Share Article TIRUCHI Brisk sale of sugarcane raised by a group of convicts on prison lands here was witnessed ahead of the Pongal festival. With the price of sugarcane offered by the Prison Department being cheaper than the ones sold in the open market, bulk sale was noticed with some buyers coming all the way from Chennai. The edible variety of sugarcane, known as senkarumbu, was raised on two acre land belonging to the Prison Dep...