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Hooghly District Correctional Home

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Hooghly Jail Jail in West Bengal Hooghly Jail Hooghly Jail or the Hooghly District Correctional Home, is a prison and itself a heritage building situated at Hugli-Chuchura in the Indian state of West Bengal.[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooghly_Jail#cite_note-1)

Background

Hooghly Jail or the Hooghly District Correctional Home, is a prison and itself a heritage building situated at Hugli-Chuchura in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.

Capacity

434

Current population

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Occupancy

—

Year opened

1817

Operational

Figures from official sources · verified 3 Jul 2026 · methodology

Facility profile

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

1817

Region

West Bengal

Security level

—

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

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1738 peers
Capacity (beds)this: 434 · peers avg: 888 (51%)

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42%

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World Prisons. (2026). Hooghly District Correctional Home. Retrieved October 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hooghly-jail
Chicago
"Hooghly District Correctional Home." World Prisons. Accessed October 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hooghly-jail.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-hooghly-jail,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Hooghly District Correctional Home},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hooghly-jail},
  urldate = {2026-10-20}
}