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Alipore Women's Correctional Home

Women's correctional homeMedium
Verified 31 May 2026
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Background

The Alipore Jail or Alipore Central Jail, also known as Presidency Correctional Home, is a defunct Indian prison in Alipore, Kolkata, where political prisoners were kept under British rule. It also housed the Alipore Jail Press. It is no longer in operation as a jail, having been shut down on 20 February 2019. The jail site has been now developed into an independence museum in memory of the martyrs who were imprisoned and executed there.

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Capacity

314

Current population

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Occupancy

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Year opened

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Operational

Facility profile

Operator

West Bengal Correctional Services Department

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

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Region

West Bengal

Security level

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Death-row facility

No

Conditions

No conditions summary available yet.

Visiting

No visiting information available.

Mailing

No mailing information available.

Practical info

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Known issues

No major issues documented in our database.

Contact & address

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Compared to other facilities in India

1724 peers
Capacity (beds)this: 314 · peers avg: 848 (63%)

Data completeness

34%

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