Hooghly jail
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For families
How to send mail, money, and visit Hooghly jail
Step-by-step guidance using the India system — addresses, money services, visit booking, what to bring on your first visit.
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Photo by Pinakpani via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Photo by Pinakpani via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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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
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1817
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
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Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1817
Region
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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
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
Data completeness
16%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.