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NWFP prisoners allowed to keep wives in jail
 LAHORE: The North West Frontier Province (NWFP) government has allowed prisoners to keep their wives with them in jail thrice a year, a news channel reported on Saturday. The channel quoted an NWFP government notification as saying that a married woman could spend three days with her husband in jail three times in a year with the district coordination officer's permission. "The women can keep their children with them in jail, who are below six years," the notification added. The channel reported that this facility would be provided to men who had spent over five years in jail. The notification said that the prisoners with more than one wife could spend two days with each wife. The prisoners involved in terrorism and subversive activities would not have this facility, the notification said according to the report. Azam Khan, inspector general prisons, told the channel that separate rooms for such couples were being built in the provincial prisons in compliance with the NWFP government's orders.Posted by: tipper 2005-01-10 |
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