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Monday, May 16, 2005

Karnataka

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Film on released prisoners

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The State Prisons Department has come out with a documentary film highlighting the need for providing emotional support and social acceptance to released prisoners to help them lead a new life.

The Chief Minister, N. Dharam Singh, will soon release the three-minute film in Kannada, Hindi and English, hosted by the actress Sonali Bendre.

The documentary, "Dignity for released prisoners," has a message from the Director-General of Police and Inspector-General of Prisons, B.S. Sial. It has been produced by the Mumbai-based Apocalypso Films and has been filmed in that city. Mr. Sial told presspersons here that the documentary has a clear message: hate the sin and not the sinner. It is part of several programmes that the State Prisons Department has initiated to reform and rehabilitate prisoners, he added.

Mr. Sial said he has written to the Department of Information and Broadcasting to telecast the documentary on the national and regional networks of Doordarshan.

The film that was screened for presspersons underscores the importance of emotional support to released prisoners, particularly from their family members.

Mr. Sial said Kannada film directors and producers have come forward to make a five-minute documentary in Kannada on the same theme.

The film will be shot at the Central Prison at Parappana Agrahara here and a few Kannada actors will feature in the documentary. Exhibitors have agreed to screen the documentary at cinemas.

Mr. Sial said the department has been conducting training programmes in two-wheeler repair, vermiculture, dairy management, beekeeping, fisheries, sculpture, and woodcarving to help released prisoners take up constructive work and earn a livelihood.

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