Inspector General of Prisons
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Inspector General of Prisons, IG Prisons or IG of Prisons is the highest rank in the provincial prison
service, usually the provincial commanding and controlling officer and chief/head of all district, central, special and women jails/prisons, borstal
institutions and remand homes in a province in India
and Pakistan
.
Prison
A prison is a place in which people are physically confined and, usually, deprived of a range of personal freedoms. Imprisonment or incarceration is a legal penalty that may be imposed by the state for the commission of a crime...
service, usually the provincial commanding and controlling officer and chief/head of all district, central, special and women jails/prisons, borstal
Borstal
A borstal was a type of youth prison in the United Kingdom, run by the Prison Service and intended to reform seriously delinquent young people. The word is sometimes used loosely to apply to other kinds of youth institution or reformatory, such as Approved Schools and Detention Centres. The court...
institutions and remand homes in a province in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
and Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
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See also
- DIG Prisons
- AIG PrisonsAIG PrisonsAssistant Inspector General of Prisons, is a high ranking officer in the provincial prison system, usually equivalent in rank to the Senior Superintendent of Jail or Superintendent of Central Jail within a province in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.-See also:*IG Prisons*DIG Prisons*Senior...
- Senior Superintendent of Jail
- Superintendent of Jail