Prison Administration in Pakistan

A corrupt and dysfunctional prison system has contributed to – and is a manifestation of – the breakdown of the rule of law in Pakistan. Heavily overpopulated, understaffed and poorly managed, the prisons have become a fertile breeding ground for criminality and militancy, with prisoners more likely to return to crime than to abandon it. The system must be examined in the context of a deteriorating criminal justice sector that fails to prevent or prosecute crime, and protects the powerful while victimising the underprivileged. Yet, while domestic and international actors alike are devoting more resources to improve policing and prosecution, prisons continue to be largely neglected. The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-led government at the centre and the four provincial governments, as well as the country’s international partners, should make penal reform a central component of a criminal justice reform agenda.

  1.      Imprisonment as sentence
  2.     Prison administration and its management
  3.    Prison classification and rehabilitative programs in prisons of Pakistan
  4.    Prison population and problems of overcrowding
  5.     Community-Based Corrections (Parole)
  6.    Future of contemporary prison in Pakistan

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