Sunita Singh 35, a murder convict, rushes to the beauty parlour inside the high security walls at Tihar every time her relatives come calling. She indulges in spa, facial, eye-brow threading and nails painting among other beauty treatment facilities available and pays a little over Rs 200.
Likewise, women inmates do not forget to indulge themselves before leaving the jail premises for attending court hearings.
Tihar is fast becoming the hottest beauty treatment centre for the 525 women prisoners including some foreigners lodged in the high security walls of Asia’s biggest prison.
Forget your friendly neighbourhood beauty parlours or upmarket beauty treatment centres, a Tihar inmate is also enjoying the same luxury – hair cut, eyebrow threading, facial, bleach, pedicure, manicure, hair dye, head message and spa.
“Women prisoners make a beeline at the beauty parlour whenever their friends and relatives come calling. Sometimes, the visitors are unable to recognise them as they look so good,” said Tihar Spokesperson Sunil Gupta.
A pedicure costs Rs.30, a spa Rs 110, a facial Rs 70, a hair dyeing Rs 30 and eyebrow threading Rs 25.
“The parlour has become such a hit that many of them visit it before leaving the jail premises for attending court hearings. It has provided them with a good opportunity to pamper themselves and they are loving it. Who does not like to look good?,” said a jail officials when asked with a smile.
The inmates working at the parlour are paid wages for the work.
At present inmates under three categories – skilled, semi skilled and unskilled – gets Rs 99, Rs 81 and Rs 70 a day respectively.
The in-house parlour, is a furnished room with photos of Bollywood beauties like Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit adorning the four walls. There is a long mirror along the wall while wooden chairs are there for customers.
“The parlour is run by some inmates who got training in beauty culture from trained people from Habibs. The training is imparted as part of the rehabilitation programme,” said Sunil Gupta.
According to him the inmates who run the parlour are all trained in modern hair styling and other beauty therapy. “The parlour has become the most colourful and noisiest place inside the women jail,” he added.
The parlour is chock a block especially during festivals.
“Most of them throng the parlour during festivals such as karva chauth to pamper themselves with beauty therapy. Inmates clad in trousers, spaghetti tops, salwar-kameez capris, shirts and skirts are seen standing in the queue,” Gupta, adding foreigner prisoners also frequent the facility.
Most of them are from Nigeria and are facing trial in drug cases and fraud cases.
Going by the flourishing business, the jail authorities are now planning to set up similar beauty salons for its male inmates.
There are salons for hair cut in the other 10 jail for male prisoners where government barbers offer services free of cost.
“Now we have started training programmes for male inmates in hair cutting too. Male inmates also want to look good. We keep on getting VIP inmates who always suggest us to set up flashy salon,” said a prison official.
The parlour is not a profit-making venture. “Every day it is opened from 9 am to 2 pm and they earning is used to buy the cosmetics and accessories for the parlour,” said the official.
Habib’s Hair Academy was set up a training centre where several inmates take part in the training courses, hoping that this will help them start a new life after their release.
The prisoners who successfully complete the training are awarded certificate without mentioning the place of training to facilitate their employment after release from jail.
There are 525 women prisoners in jail no 6 and around 30 per cent of them are murder convicts while the rest are undertrials, mostly in dowry related cases.
At present Tihar houses 13,000 prisoners against the sanctioned capacity of 6,000.
Life in the jail follows a set routine.
Prisoners wake up at 5 am followed by a daily attendance call; breakfast is served at 7 am; lunch between 11 and 12 pm followed by a visitors’ meeting time. The dinner is served early at 5 pm before the prisoners are locked into their barracks and cells.
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Likewise, women inmates do not forget to indulge themselves before leaving the jail premises for attending court hearings.
Tihar is fast becoming the hottest beauty treatment centre for the 525 women prisoners including some foreigners lodged in the high security walls of Asia’s biggest prison.
Forget your friendly neighbourhood beauty parlours or upmarket beauty treatment centres, a Tihar inmate is also enjoying the same luxury – hair cut, eyebrow threading, facial, bleach, pedicure, manicure, hair dye, head message and spa.
“Women prisoners make a beeline at the beauty parlour whenever their friends and relatives come calling. Sometimes, the visitors are unable to recognise them as they look so good,” said Tihar Spokesperson Sunil Gupta.
A pedicure costs Rs.30, a spa Rs 110, a facial Rs 70, a hair dyeing Rs 30 and eyebrow threading Rs 25.
“The parlour has become such a hit that many of them visit it before leaving the jail premises for attending court hearings. It has provided them with a good opportunity to pamper themselves and they are loving it. Who does not like to look good?,” said a jail officials when asked with a smile.
The inmates working at the parlour are paid wages for the work.
At present inmates under three categories – skilled, semi skilled and unskilled – gets Rs 99, Rs 81 and Rs 70 a day respectively.
The in-house parlour, is a furnished room with photos of Bollywood beauties like Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor and Madhuri Dixit adorning the four walls. There is a long mirror along the wall while wooden chairs are there for customers.
“The parlour is run by some inmates who got training in beauty culture from trained people from Habibs. The training is imparted as part of the rehabilitation programme,” said Sunil Gupta.
According to him the inmates who run the parlour are all trained in modern hair styling and other beauty therapy. “The parlour has become the most colourful and noisiest place inside the women jail,” he added.
The parlour is chock a block especially during festivals.
“Most of them throng the parlour during festivals such as karva chauth to pamper themselves with beauty therapy. Inmates clad in trousers, spaghetti tops, salwar-kameez capris, shirts and skirts are seen standing in the queue,” Gupta, adding foreigner prisoners also frequent the facility.
Most of them are from Nigeria and are facing trial in drug cases and fraud cases.
Going by the flourishing business, the jail authorities are now planning to set up similar beauty salons for its male inmates.
There are salons for hair cut in the other 10 jail for male prisoners where government barbers offer services free of cost.
“Now we have started training programmes for male inmates in hair cutting too. Male inmates also want to look good. We keep on getting VIP inmates who always suggest us to set up flashy salon,” said a prison official.
The parlour is not a profit-making venture. “Every day it is opened from 9 am to 2 pm and they earning is used to buy the cosmetics and accessories for the parlour,” said the official.
Habib’s Hair Academy was set up a training centre where several inmates take part in the training courses, hoping that this will help them start a new life after their release.
The prisoners who successfully complete the training are awarded certificate without mentioning the place of training to facilitate their employment after release from jail.
There are 525 women prisoners in jail no 6 and around 30 per cent of them are murder convicts while the rest are undertrials, mostly in dowry related cases.
At present Tihar houses 13,000 prisoners against the sanctioned capacity of 6,000.
Life in the jail follows a set routine.
Prisoners wake up at 5 am followed by a daily attendance call; breakfast is served at 7 am; lunch between 11 and 12 pm followed by a visitors’ meeting time. The dinner is served early at 5 pm before the prisoners are locked into their barracks and cells.
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