Buy a ticket, change the clothes and get ready to stay in a Jail for a day!

Hyderabad, December 14: Are you planning to visit Telangana then dont forget to visit a Jail of Sangareddy district. It’s a quite interesting way to experience the life of a prisoner. Telangana Police has paved this unique way at cost of Rs 500 per day.

You might be thinking as to why would someone want to do that? Well, this jail is no less than a heritage site. The 220-year-old Sangareddy District Central Jail was built by the Nizams in 1796. When M Lakshmi Narasimha, the Deputy SP of the jail came up with the ‘Feel the Jail’ idea, the jail was converted into a museum in June 2016. The concept of turning it into a sort of jail experience hotel was simply an expansion of this idea.

Aptly called ‘Feel the Jail’, the programme looks to provide accommodation to tourists in one of the 100 cells and they would have to undergo what a prisoner would have to on a normal day in prison. Firstly you have produce a fitness certificate given by a doctor plus an undertaking mentioning the consent of the tourist to become a prisoner. Then you have to buy a ticket worth Rs 500 and your journey as a prisoner starts as you will get a prisoner’s kit which has a uniform of prisoner, one blanket, one plate, one glass, one bowl and a pillow.

 

Well, that's not all. You will be made to follow the daily routine of a jail inmate. As a guest prisoner, you will be woken up at 5am in the morning by two guards, as per the rules and regulations of the jail. Thereafter, you will be made to clean your own cell, and then you will be taken to the courtyard. While tea will be given at 6:30am, a breakfast of idli will be given at 7:30am. Lunch, consisting of dal, rice, and sambhar will be served between 10:30 and 11, while a dinner of curry, rice, and curd will be given at 5pm.

Meals apart, the jail duties for the guest prisoner will include planting of saplings, and some cleaning, all during the day time. The day will end at 6pm in the evening, when you will be locked up in your cell again.

Explaining the concept, Telangana State Prisons Director General VK Singh said, “It would make people understand how it feels to be in a prison environment and would send a strong message of avoiding the jail.”