(1) To ensure safety of female prisoners and guard them against any form of exploitation, the State Government may establish women jails in the State.
(2) While exclusive prisons far from central areas may hinder a female prisoner’s proximity from home, such exclusive prisons may at times be necessary from a safety perspective.
(3) In any case, separate enclosures or prisons within a district or central prisons are also required to be established for housing female inmates where there are no exclusive jails for women.
(4) Till separate prisons for women are established, both male and female inmates can be confined in the same prison on the condition that female offenders are to be kept in strictly secluded female enclosures within the prison complex.
(5) The existing enclosures for women in common prisons may be renovated to ensure that the women inmates do not come in contact with male inmates during their passage to and from these enclosures. Such enclosure should be, to the extent possible, independent in terms of infrastructural set-up.
(6) These enclosures should have a double lock system, one lock outside and the other inside.