They said the products made by the prisoners in the jail are being sold at the prison’s sales and exhibition centre, and different fairs in the capital as well.
According to them, more than 300 prisoners have been making handicraft items and nakshikantha in the jail.
Shahanaz Begum, Deputy Jailer of Cumilla Central Jail, said the handicraft products are being sold at the prison’s sales and exhibition centre round the year.
The products made by the prisoners here have a high demand at the annual Dhaka International Trade Fair and other fairs, she said adding the prisoners are receiving their fair shares from the sales of their products, which is bringing a positive mental change in them, too.
When they will return to the normal life after serving their jail terms, they will not remain unemployed for long as they are becoming skilled human resources, said Forkan Wahid, Jailer of the Cumilla Central Jail.
The Cumilla District Jail, which was turned into a central jail in 1962, now has some 3,000 prisoners against its capacity of accommodating 1,742.