Tihar Prisons, also called Tihar Jail and Tihar Ashram, is the largest complex of prisons in South Asia. It is located at Tihar village, about 7 km from Chanakya Puri, to the west of New Delhi, India. The surrounding area is called Hari Nagar.
The jail is maintained as a Correctional Institution. Its main objective is to convert its inmates in to normal members of the society by providing them with useful skills, schooling and rules. It is meant to improve the inmates' self-esteem and strengthen their desire to improve. Items manufactured by the inmates bear the brand Tihar.
Asia's largest jail, Delhis Tihar Jail, has taken its first step in to online retailing, offering goods over the Net made by inmates including murderers and kidnappers. The Tihar Jail factory comprises units in baking, carpentry, weaving, tailoring, oil extraction, paper-making and shoe-making.
Inmates work in the furniture section of Tihar Jail in New Delhi.
Prisoners make branded food & art. Proceeds go to their victims. The Tihar Factory, which trains & employs convicts, raked in Rs 11 crore from sales of its TJ brand of products last year.
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