തിരുവനന്തപുരം സെന്‍ട്രല്‍ പ്രിസണ്‍ & കറക്ഷണല്‍ ഹോമിലെ ചപ്പാത്തിയൂണിറ്റിലേയ്ക്ക് പാചകവാതകം വിതരണം ചെയ്യുന്നതിനുള്ള ക്വൊട്ടേഷന്‍ നോട്ടീസ്

HISTORY

The history of the Jails in the Travancore part of the State begins in the year 1862 with three Principal Jails. 1873 Central Jail at Trivandrum was sanctioned and started functioning inside the fort in a building which was used as barracks for the Nayar Brigade. In September 1886 it was transferred and accommodated in the buildings put up for the purpose in Poojappura, Trivandrum. Besides Police Station lock-ups in the different parts of Travancore were also serving the purpose of Jails for confinement of prisoners whose sentences were below one month.

In 1949 when the state of Travancore-Cochin was formed there were two Central Jails at Trivandrum and Viyyur and 7 Sub Jails in the Cochin part of the State besides the police station lock-ups serving the purpose of Sub Jails in the Travancore part. Senior most of the Superintendent Central Prisons acts as the Ex-Officio Inspector General of Prisons till 31-03-1953.

First Central Prison was established at Kannur in the year 1869. First District Jail was established at Kozhikode in the year 1861. First Open Prison was established at Nettukaltheri, Trivandrum on 28th August 1962. First Women’s Prison was established at Neyyattinkara, Trivandrum in the year 1990. The first Inspector General was appointed on 01-04-1953 in order to be independent in the discharge of function as per the provisions in the Prisons Act for the purpose of the Act. The Prisons Headquarters/ Office of the Inspector General of Prisons was sanctioned with effect from 01-04-1953. Since 1986 officers from the Police Department are being appointed to act as Inspector General of Prisons. In September 1975 the Administrative control of Social Welfare Institutions and the Probation services was transferred to the Social Welfare Department.

Head of the Department of Prisons, since 1953

Sl. No.	Name	Designation	From	To
1	Shri. A.V.John	Inspector General of Prisons	01.04.1953	21.07.1961
2	Shri. K.Velayudhan	Inspector General of Prisons	21.07.1961	19.11.1963
3	Shri. V.Raghavan Nair	Inspector General of Prisons	19.11.1963	18.03.1971
4	Shri. P.Gopla Menon	Inspector General of Prisons	18.03.1971	31.12.1979
5	Shri. R.Janardhanan Pillai	Inspector General of Prisons	01.01.1980	31.01.1982
6	Shri. N.Subramonian	Inspector General of Prisons	01.02.1982	15.08.1986
7	Shri. J.Padmagireeswaran IPS	Addl. Director General of Police (Prisons)	16.08.1986	18.08.1989
8	Shri. C.Subramonian IPS	Addl. Director General of Police (Prisons)	18.08.1989	10.12.1991
9	Shri. I.Thankaraj IPS	Inspector General of Police (Prisons)	11.12.1991	21.09.1992
10	Shri. R.Jayaram Padikkal IPS	Addl. Director General of Police (Prisons)	21.09.1992	23.04.1993
11	Shri. V.Krishna Moorthy IPS	Addl. Director General of Police (Prisons)	23.04.1993	02.03.1994
12	Shri. T.V.Madhusudanan IPS	Addl. Director General of Police (Prisons)	02.03.1994	30.04.1994
13	Shri. K.V.Rajagopalan Nair IPS	Addl. Director General of Police (Prisons)	30.04.1994	12.12.1994
14	Shri. R.Radhakrishnan IPS	Director General of Police (Prisons)	12.12.1994	30.06.1996
15	Shri. K.Sukumaran Nair IPS	Inspector General of Police (Prisons)	01.07.1996	16.10.1996
16	Shri. M.Abdulsatharkunju IPS	Director General of Police (Prisons)	16.10.1996	05.06.1997
17	Shri. R.Padmanabhan IPS	Addl. Director General of Police (Prisons)	05.06.1997	20.11.1997
18	Shri. B.S.Sastry IPS	Director General of Police (Prisons)	24.11.1997	31.03.1998
19	Shri. P.R.Chandran IPS	Director General of Police (Prisons)	27.04.1998	18.07.1998
20	Shri. R.P.C.Nair IPS	Director General of Police (Prisons)	13.07.1998	31.07.2001
21	Shri. P.K.Hormis Tharakan IPS	Addl. Director General of Police (Prisons)	31.07.2001	31.08.2001
22	Shri. M.G.A.Ramen IPS	Addl. Director General of Police (Prisons)	06.09.2001	30.11.2001
23	Dr. K.Sukumaran Nair IPS	Addl. Director General of Police (Prisons)	30.11.2001	24.08.2003
24	Dr. Alphonse Louis Erayil IPS	Addl. Director General of Police (Prisons)	25.08.2003	15.07.2004
25	Shri. M.G.A.Ramen IPS	Director General of Police (Prisons)	15.07.2004	18.10.2007
26	Shri. K.P.Somarajan IPS	Addl. Director General of Police (Prisons)	19.10.2007	30.12.2008
27	Shri. Paul Leslie IPS	Inspector General of Police (Prisons) i/c of ADGP (Prisons)	30.12.2008	18.10.2009
28	Shri. Paul Leslie IPS	Addl. Director General of Police (Prisons)	19.10.2009	31.10.2009
29	Dr. Alexander Jacob IPS	Addl. Director General of Police (Prisons)	31.10.2009	06.11.2012
30	Dr. Alexander Jacob IPS	Director General of Prisons & Correctional Services (DGP)	07.11.2012	07.12.2013
31	Shri. T.P.Senkumar IPS	Director General of Prisons & Correctional Services [i/c] (ADGP)	07.12.2013	01.01.2014
32	Shri. T.P.Senkumar IPS	Director General of Prisons & Correctional Services (DGP)	02.01.2014	31.05.2015
33	Shri. Loknath Behera IPS	Director General of Prisons & Correctional Services (DGP)	01.06.2015	08.12.2015
34	Shri. Rishi Raj Singh IPS	Director General of Prisons & Correctional Services (DGP)	08.12.2015	08.06.2016
35	Shri. Anilkant IPS	Director General of Prisons & Correctional Services (ADGP)	08.06.2016	17.01.2017
35	Shri. R.Sreelekha IPS	Director General of Prisons & Correctional Services (ADGP)	18.01.2017

Smt. R. SREELEKHA IPS

Director General of Prisons
and Correctional Services

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