Central Prison Karachi is the biggest Jail in the province of Sindh with a capacity of 2,300 prisoners but it has been flooded with more than 6,300 inmates. This was briefly explained by Federal Minister of Human Rights who gave information but failed to make the situation better.
In Sindh the total numbers of prisoners are 20,308 while the authorized capacity is only for 12,245 prisoners.
The prisoners include thieves, rapists, killers, abductors, target killers and terrorists. Suggestions were made that housing a normal thief with a criminal will have adverse impact on him but government failed to take notice.
Central Prison Karachi is a Prison form colonial era and the system and method followed is same as colonial period. It should change because at that time imprisonment was a place for torture now it’s not.
Prison was considered a place to teach criminals a lesson but now prison is thought to be a place to make them better human being but Central Prison Karachi fails to be such a place. Though attempts were made to make it better but still there is a long way to go.
In 2007 The Fine Arts School was established with the same purpose: to teach prisoners the art education and make them better and useful students.