Bareilly Central Jail
Bareilly Central Jail was built in 1848 at Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh, India, at a time when the authorities of the British East India Company were introducing a policy of constructing central prisons to house those convicted for long terms.As another strand of the policy, these new prisons were governed by police inspectors rather than, as previously, being under the control of district collectors.The change in responsibility caused members of the Indian Medical Service to take over from those of the Indian Civil Service and reflected the enquiry's concern regarding prison conditions, which it had considered to be chaotic, arbitrary, unsanitary and disease-ridden and the cause of high death rates.Despite these progressive conclusions, which also created a two-tier designation of "simple imprisonment" and "rigorous imprisonment", the principal purpose of the central prisons remained that of punishment rather than rehabilitation, with prisoners kept occupied in the performance of dull, repetitive tasks and with no provision for education or reward for good behaviour.The perceived humanising touch to the strictures of imprisonment led to a change in prison manuals, effectively preventing any further such events.