THESIS PROPOSAL
Submitted by
Mohammad Ashraful Alam
Id :201732014
Level: 5,
Term:1
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE MILITARY INSTITUTE OF
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
DHAKA, BANGLADESH
Project Name: Design of New District Jail, Thakurgaon
Location: Thakurgaon Central Jail, Thakurgaon, Rangpur Division
Site Area: 15 Acre (approx.)
Client: Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs
Abstract:
Our ideas of crime and discipline have continuously been a portion of culture in Bangladesh all through
its records. In our country the acts acknowledged as ‘crime’ and the punishments enforced upon convict
for their wrongdoing have been very brutal, harsh and inhumane in every way through out its time. But
at present-day we have started an attempted to utilize discipline for directing positive ‘norms’ as an
alternative than frightening. We want to build the prison system into a rehabilitation system which will
enable an individual to be civilized and contributing towards the society while re-entering. We can turn
convicted people into positively motivated and disciplined individual through Architectural
reconsideration in space, spatial impact and organized arrangement. With changing time we also have to
change our attitude for the correction facilities of these people for us to have a better and civilized society.
Keywords:
Discipline, rehabilitation, contribution, humane
Introduction:
The site of the project situated in Thakurgaon Central Jail, Thakurgaon of Rangpur Division. Total area
of the site is 15 acres (approax). The client of that project is Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary
Affairs. This site was already in use as small prison system in Thakurgaon. But the aim of the newly
proposed project was to build a maximum facility prison system for serving the entire division.
Research aim:
The aim of this project is to explore the scope and opportunity of existing jail design system to create a
more humane and compassionate jail system for the prisoners so that it helps the prisoner to grow in to
better contributing member of the society in the future.
Objectives:
1. To take a new approach to the jail rehabilitation system that prevents people from re-offending
2. To adopt a more humane approach in the traditional jail design
3. To educate the convicted people into skillful professionals for contributing towards society after
serving time.
Literature Review:
Discipline: Teach is activity or inaction that's controlled to be in accordance (or to attain agreement)
with a specific framework of administration. Teach is commonly connected to controlling human and
creature behavior to its society or environment it has a place. Within the scholarly and proficient world a
teach could be a particular department of information, learning, or hone. Teach can be a set of expectations
that are required by any overseeing substance counting the self, bunches, classes, areas, businesses, or
social orders. Teach may be a ethical commitment among numerous bunches of individuals. Taught
behavior is required by a few laws and other lawful commitments.
Rehabilitation: Rehabilitation is basically the method of making a difference prisoner develop and
alter, permitting them to isolate themselves from the natural variables that made them commit wrongdoing
within the, to begin with, put. The thought is to treat each of the major contributing variables in arrange
to assist provide a detainee the capacity to live a crime-free life after they are discharged from prison. One
of the greatest challenges for inmates is being institutionalized, living in prison so long that they did not
know how to operate within the exterior world. This makes a few of them commit violations so they can
go back to jail where they know how to outlive. So what recovery programs have been made to assist
detainees to straighten out to society and evacuate themselves from all of the natural risk components.
Contribution: Through contribution we understand to be a useful member of society through skillful
work in professional or humanitarian way. This makes the contributors a vital part of the society where
the people can depend and trust him for their welfare rater then harm.
Humane: A sympathetic individual is one who appears great sympathy and caring for others, counting
creatures, and who tries at whatever point conceivable to lighten another's enduring. Sympathetic
individuals act in a kind, thoughtful way towards other individuals and creatures, and attempt to do them
as small hurt as conceivable. Compassionate values and social orders energize individuals to act in a kind
and thoughtful way towards others, indeed towards individuals, they don't concur with or like.
Case Study 01:
Project Name: Lucknow District Jail
Location: Mohanlalganj, Gosainganj, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
The unused imprisonment complex with women's jail, a present-day imprison and an area imprison was
being completed at taken a toll of almost 326 crore rupees, the development was being done by
U.P.R.N.N.L.
Each circle has five divisions, with each division they've four resting walled in area buildings, each circle
has school and some of the mess for dinners course of development internal parts every circle no matter
the truth that because it turned into this kind of messes are utilitarian directly. each circle has a division
work environment and watchtower for each exact circle over the workplace Other Facilities of this Prison:
Kitchen, 120-bedded recuperating center, relentless get collectively put, multipurpose campaign, college
developing for each circle, canteen, activity shade, x-ray filtering, CCTV cameras, video conferencing
room, critical watchtower, police station, control cells, naval force huts, tall security cells.
Case Study 02:
Project Name: Old Central Jail Sylhet
Location: Sylhet City, Sylhet, Bangladesh
The imprison set up on 10 acres of arrive with the capability of 1,210 prisoners house 23 wards and 26
cells, including seven for mentally disabled prisoners. There are approximately 2,800 prisoners, counting
42 condemned convicts and 15 outsiders, at the imprison at present and the jail authorities exceptionally
regularly face a parcel of issues to manage such a large number of prisoners. Since its initiation in 1889,
no major step has been taken to repair the jail. Even no repair work of the jail building has been done
during the final 35 years, an official said.
Background:
The framework of the prison organization in Bangladesh is insufficient to compare it with Western nations.
The framework of prison organization in Bangladesh is generally fragile. The prison is run by the state
and is used to house convicted thugs for much longer periods of time. The broader corrective framework
incorporates other criminal justice views such as courts, legal requirements, and malpractice laboratories.
Prison can be a situation in which people are physically constrained and are usually denied a range of
individual options. be a state-imposed legal penalty for committing irregularities. The prison framework
is the organizational approach to establishing and operating the Bangladeshi prison administration system.
It's not good for overcrowding, delays in legal proceedings, prison living conditions, operating
environment and prison management, and infrastructure and facilities. The display framework and hones
of jail organization have been set up amid the 200-year duration of British mastery, which finished in
1947. From 1947 to 1971, while Pakistan managed the nation, no changes have been made, so that
detainment nowadays implies discipline with out preparation preparing or social restoration. The root of
imprisonment organization primarily based totally on a complete regulation dates again to 1864 When the
authorities of Bengal surrounded a point-by-point imprisonment code. Until 1864, imprisonment
organization changed into finished via way of means of implies of sporadically issued round letters and
common orders. There has been in impact no consistency inside the imprisonment strategy. In any case,
The Bengal Imprison Code of 1864 created inside the consequent an extended time by a synopsis of
regulations and directions issued on occasion and implied for the superintendence and administration of
all the correctional facilities, counting the backup correctional facilities, all through the territory. It
comprised parts, The Bengal Jail Code and The Bengal Subsidiary Jail Code.
Study area:
This location was as of now in utilizing as a little jail system in Thakurgaon. But the point of the recently
proposed venture was to construct a maximum office jail framework for serving the entire division.
Methodology:
Program Formulation:
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