The Ministry of Rehabilitation and Prisons Reforms is currently discussing several proposals to implement a social insurance scheme for inmates who are receiving long term prison terms.

According to the Ministry the insurance will be based on the crime that the particular inmate had committed. “He has to be suitable to be given insurance. We will also take their discipline into account,” the Ministry said.

The Ministry together with the National Insurance Trust (NIT) is jointly collaborating to implement these proposals. The Ministry has created a prison account by depositing wages and other incomes that are being generated by the inmates.

Wages generated by the particular inmate will be handed over to them when they complete their respective prison terms, the Ministry said.

The ministry is especially focusing on how the inmates can be given a new life when they return back to society after concluding their respective prison terms.

The Ministry has initiated many programmes to uplift the facilities and to educate them that the society will take them back if there returned with good qualities and being aware of the mistakes they committed in life which paved them to serve terms in prisons.