Introduction:
“We hate crimes,
not individuals”, it is the main slogan of police in Pakistan. Despite numerous
sincere efforts, police across the country have remained unsuccessful to
persuade the citizens, in general, on the fact that police hate crimes, not
criminals. However, the recently held convocation in Karachi Central Jail for
inmates who had completed their vocational training has gained praises from
across the country. Karachi Central Jail holds country’s first-ever convocation
for 248 inmates who completed vocational courses in information technology,
graphic designing, Chinese, and English languages, as reported by Express News
on Thursday[1].
Strategy:
Public-private
partnership is not a novel administrative approach. It is a decades old
strategy in which private organization, having competent workforce and
decision-makers, collaborate with public institutions. Such approach brings out
productive outcomes. In Karachi Central Jail, the prison department
collaborated with Alkhidmat Foundation for the purpose to upskill inmates.
Coures Taught:
The inmates were
awarded with certificates of different fields. These include graphic designing,
computer and information technology, and foreign languages such as English,
Arabic and Chinese[2].
Prison Reforms
and the aforementioned Event:
Judicial system
reforms, of which prison reforms is a part, is a long-standing issue which
needs to be resolved. Prisons in Pakistan are considered breeding grounds of
extremism and criminality. However, such measures will enable prisons to fulfil
their constitutional obligations of correcting inmates and making them
responsible citizens. It must be replicated not only in Sindh province jails
but also in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan, AJK and Gilgit Baltistan.