The 31st meeting of the Jharkhand State Sentence Review Board was held today in the Jharkhand Ministry under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Hemant Soren. In the meeting, a review was done regarding the release of 74 prisoners serving life sentence in various jails of the state. In the meeting, the CM, in the light of the recommendation of the State Sentence Review Board, gave his approval to the decision to release 39 prisoners. In the course of the review, after discussing point-wise on the opinion of the courts, Superintendent of Police of the concerned districts, Jail Superintendent and Probation Officer, a consensus was reached to release 39 prisoners. In the meeting, Soren directed the officials to verify the family background, social and economic status of the prisoners released after serving life sentence in various jails of the state in the light of the recommendation by the Jharkhand State Sentence Review Board. The CM said that a special action plan should be made for income generation for the livelihood of the released prisoners. He said that the released prisoners should be linked to skill development programs. To link them to employment, they should be given the benefits of schemes like dairy farm, poultry farm, animal husbandry etc. The CM said that after being released from prison, these prisoners should not face any social problem in livelihood and they should not face financial crisis, so a better plan should be prepared for this and they should be linked to self-employment. The CM said that information should also be taken about the family status of those prisoners who are being released and who have crossed the age limit. He said that it is also the moral responsibility of all of us to link the released prisoners to the mainstream of society. Additional Chief Secretary to Chief Minister Avinash Kumar, Principal Secretary-cum-Law Advisor Law (Justice) Department Nalin Kumar, Principal Secretary Home, Prison and Disaster Management Department Vandana Dadel, Judicial Commissioner, Ranchi Diwakar Pandey, DGP Anurag Gupta, Inspector General of Prisons Jharkhand Sudarshan Prasad Mandal and other officers were present in the meeting.

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