Official sources said the library, initiated and set up under the guidance of the Additional Director General of Police (Jail) M K Das, would function as a correctional aid for the jail inmates whose background varied from looters, criminals, gangsters to insurgents.
Authorities of the Manipur Central Jail, the biggest of its kind in the state, have appealed to the general public to donate reading materials and books including books on religion, inspiration, general knowledge, magazines etc, sources said adding that these would help reform the prisoners and lead a normal life after their tenure.