LUCKNOW, Feb. 20 -- The Uttar Pradesh department of prisons administration and reform services on Thursday organised a state-level sensitisation training programme to strengthen awareness and ensure the protection of rights and dignified treatment of divyang (persons with disabilities) in prisons across the state, according to a press release issued by senior jail authorities.

The officials stated that the programme focussed on safeguarding the legal rights, addressing the accessibility needs, and upholding the human dignity of divyang inmates, while emphasising the responsibility of jail authorities to foster an inclusive and humane custodial environment.

Senior superintendents, superintendents, jailers and deputy jailers from prisons ...