Chapter XV WELFARE PROGRAMS FOR PRISONERS

Vocational Training, Skill Development, Education and Recreation facilities.-

1. (1) The prisoners may be provided appropriate opportunity for enhancing their educational qualification, including making provision for library facilities in a prison, as may be prescribed under the rules.
2. (2) Vocational training and skill development programs may be provided to prisoners as part of prison correctional programs. These programs may be diverse in nature to facilitate rehabilitation of the prisoners, as prescribed under the rules.
3. (3) The officer-in-charge may organize spiritual, cultural, and recreational programs, etc. for the prisoners, as may be prescribed under the rules.
4. (4) The Government may frame a scheme which may be called the Prisoners Welfare Fund for the welfare of the prisoners in the State.

Establishment of Canteens and Sales Outlets.- Canteens and Sales Outlets may be established in a prison for the sale of products, including jail products to the prisoners, prison staff and the public, as may be prescribed under the rules.