District Jail Jhelum

District Jail Jhelum

Location	Jhelum, Pakistan
Security class	Maximum security prison
Capacity	416 [1]
Population	805 prisoners as of 2009 [1]
Opened	1854
Managed by	Government of Punjab, Pakistan
Director	Hassan Mujtaba

District Jail Jhelum is a prominent jail in Jhelum, Pakistan. It is one of the oldest jails in Pakistan which is used for prisoners of Jhelum and Chakwal. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

Former prisoners

• Engineer Mirza (born 1977), Pakistani cleric and commentator

See also

• Government of Punjab, Pakistan
• Punjab Prisons (Pakistan)
• Prison Officer
• Headquarter Jail
• National Academy for Prisons Administration
• Punjab Prisons Staff Training Institute

References

1. "Punjab jails house 160 percent more inmates". Daily Times (newspaper). 21 November 2009. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
2. Baqir Sajjad Syed (5 December 2021). "Military court convicts rights activist of espionage". Dawn. Pakistan. Retrieved 31 March 2022.
3. Jails in the Punjab (includes District Jail Jhelum) Punjab Prisons, Government of the Punjab website, Retrieved 31 March 2022
4. "Inspector General of Prisons, Punjab". Punjab Prisons (Pakistan) website. Archived from the original on 26 March 2010. Retrieved 31 March 2022.