Youth serving punishment have right to return to standard living: Shehla.

KARACHI -- Karachi Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) organized a consultation with key stakeholders on Support to Young People in Prisons and Under Probation in Sindh province. During the consultation organized at a local hotel on Wednesday, the participants discussed the challenges and suggested solutions to social and economic rehabilitation of young prisoners.

Shehla Raza, Minister for Women Development Sindh, said that that young people after serving the punishment of the crime, had right to return to adequate standard of living and social and economic development.

"Public and private sector must join hands to provide state of the art market-oriented trainings to prisoners along with psychosocial and legal aid to increase the chances of young prisoners' social and economic reintegration after their release," she suggested.

Nasir Khan, DIG Prisons said that lack of opportunities for economic development and the continuous scorn from the employers and their own families aggravated the released prisoners trauma and they returned towards criminal activities once again; often more extreme and violent compared to their initial crime. These young people have...