Under a new initiative called 'Freedom', the Tamil Nadu government has decided to sell products including clothes and bakery products made by the jail inmates in the state through a 'prison bazaar'. The programme has been launched at the Central Prison at suburban Puzhal in Chennai. Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa had earlier announced the setting up of prison bazaars with an investment of Rs 10 lakh, mooted in May last year.
These would sell clothes, bakery products, footwear, soaps and masala products among others. It is part of the state's efforts to provide an opportunity for reformation and rehabilitation to the prisoners. After Chennai, Coimbatore would be the next in line to get a bazaar, which would be ready this month. The products will be priced at a nominal rate, and will be available at the prisons between 9 am and 9 pm.
