Punjab to allow women to stay with husbands in jails

Punjab: Wives of prisoners in Punjab will soon be allowed a brief stay with their husbands in jails, a minister said on Monday.

The new jails, which are under construction in the state, are having special barracks for the purpose, Jail Minister Hira Singh Gabria said.

He said this facility will be extended on humanitarian grounds to those prisoners who had been staying in jail for several years and even the newly weds who landed themselves in prison.