Photo essay: How Kerala is mobilising prisoners to produce masks, sanitisers, go...
The Kerala police, led by Rishi Raj Singh, the state's director general of prisons and correctional services, is counting on prisoners to produce face masks, hand sanitisers and hospital gowns
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The mask making unit of Poojapura central jail. Each tailoring unit has a single tailor. Since most of the prisoners don&rsquot have the skillset, they are trained to stitch in the jail it...Image by R Ravi
The mask making unit of Attakulangara women&rsquos jailImage by R Ravi
About 1,000 of those, priced at Rs 10 each, are sold every day at the cafeteria of Poojappura central jail in ThiruvananthapuramImage by R Ravi
The Kerala State Electricity Board has ordered 50,000 masks for its employees in 14 districtsImage by R Ravi
Sree Chitra hospital in Thiruvananthapuram has ordered 500 gowns from Poojappura&rsquos gown-making unitImage by R Ravi
500 litres of hand sanitisers are produced daily, and sold at Rs 50 for 100 ml. Hand sanitisers are prepared under the guidance of chemistry professors from colleges across the state, adh...Image by R Ravi
Under the initiative &lsquoFood for Freedom&rsquo, 3 lakh chappatis are rolled and baked in the prison kitchensImage by R Ravi
550 kg of chicken is cooked in the prison kitchens per day on averageImage by R Ravi
The meals are then packed and sold near hospitals and main junctions across 10 cities. While there is an extensive menu, the cheapest among them, chicken curry and chappatis, comes for Rs 3...Image by R Ravi
Organic vegetables are maintained and cultivated inside the jail premises by the inmatesImage by R Ravi
The organic farms at the jails cumulatively produce 300 kg of vegetables every dayImage by R Ravi
The surplus vegetables are sold at prison canteen counters at a discounted rateImage by R Ravi
Some of the vegetables grown include red bananas. rich in beta carotene and vitamin C, harvested in Poojapura central jailImage by R Ravi
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