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- 1 2 3 "Punjab jails house 160 percent more inmates". Daily Times (newspaper). 1 September 2011. Archived from the original on 20 October 2012. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
- ↑ District Jail riot: Nine officials, five prisoners booked Dawn (newspaper), Published 4 July 2020, Retrieved 1 April 2022
- ↑ Jails in the Punjab (list includes District Jail Gujrat) Punjab Prisons, Government of the Punjab website, Retrieved 1 April 2022