Goa NGO warns about disturbing conditions inside Sada sub jail

Against the backdrop of a murder and a suicide attempt by two women inmates in Sada sub jail recently, a Goa-based NGO Savera today said they had cautioned the state government over the state of affairs inside the prison.
"We had visited the jail last month and had noticed the situation there. The living conditions and treatment meted out to inmates is horrible. We had submitted our report to State Chief Minister and Inspector General of Prisons," Tara Kerkar, President, Savera told reporters here today.
She said that the conditions "inside the jail are horrible" with gang rivalries flourishing which has even left the jail guards feeling insecure.

"There is acute scarcity of staff at this sub jail. Moreover, the jail guards are feeling unsafe to work there due to the indiscipline and violence inside," Kerkar claimed.
Sada Sub Jail is located in Vasco town and is amongst the two jail facilities existing in the coastal state, where undertrials and even convicts are lodged.
In an ugly incident this week, Sanjay Chauvan, who was arrested in a theft case was fatally assaulted by a fellow jail inmate.

Chauvan died while being treated at Goa Medical College near here. Similarly, two women undertrials had tried to commit suicide in the jail, who were lodged in the same cell.

Kerkar said the jail authorities should isolate the violent inmates from others.
"There is no monitoring of movements of the inmates. The recommendation to install CCTV camera in the jail has gone unheard," she said.