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'{{Infobox prison | prison_name = High Security Prison, Sahiwal | image = | location = [[Sahiwal]], [[Pakistan]] | coordinates = | status = Operational | classification = Maximum | capacity = | population = Nearly 100 prisoners | populationdate = | opened = {{Start date|2012}} | closed = | managed_by = [[Government of Punjab, Pakistan|Government of the Punjab]], [[Home Department]] | director = Naveed Ashraf, [[Superintendent of Jail]] | prisoners = }} '''High Security Prison, Sahiwal''' is a jail in [[Sahiwal]], [[Pakistan]], constructed to confine high-profile prisoners convicted in cases of terrorism and sabotage activities. Two members of the terrorist group [[Tehreek-e-Taliban]] were hung at the prison.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.geo.tv/latest/137638-Two-terrorists-hanged-in-Sahiwal-prison | title = Two TTP terrorists hanged in Sahiwal prison | date = 11 April 2017 | accessdate = 29 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.samaa.tv/news/2017/04/two-ttp-terrorists-executed-in-sahiwal-prison-ispr | title = Two TTP terrorists executed in Sahiwal prison: ISPR | date = 11 April 2017 | accessdate = 29 July 2018}}</ref> ==Background== The jail which has been constructed on 98 acres with an estimated cost of Rs930.206 million will have capacity to hold 1,044 prisoners.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.dawn.com/news/1156902 | title = Country’s first high-security prison ‘ready for opening’ | date = 14 January 2015 | accessdate = 29 July 2018}}</ref> It has an automatic locking system in individual cells and accommodates prisoners from other provinces. It also follows a provision incorporated in the Protection of Pakistan Bill 2014. It has 70 percent of cellular confinement (500 individual cells) and 30 percent barrack system (6 barracks).<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.dawn.com/news/1116694 | title = High security prison in Sahiwal shortly | date = 3 July 2014 | accessdate = 29 July 2018}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|url=https://m.gulfnews.com/news/first-ever-high-security-prison-ready-for-inauguration-1.1441466|title=First-ever high security prison ready for inauguration|website=gulfnews.com}}</ref> ==See also== {{Portal|Pakistan|Punjab|Law}} * [[Government of Punjab, Pakistan]] * [[Punjab Prisons (Pakistan)]] * [[Prison Officer]] * [[Headquarter Jail]] * [[National Academy for Prisons Administration]] * [[Punjab Prisons Staff Training Institute]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100326071006/http://www.punjabprisons.gov.pk/ Official Website of Punjab Prisons (Pakistan)] {{Prisons in Pakistan}} {{coord missing|Punjab, Pakistan}} [[Category:Prisons in Pakistan]] [[Category:Sahiwal District]] [[Category:2012 establishments in Pakistan]]'