Punjab to allow women to stay with husbands in jails

Wives of prisoners in Punjab will soon be allowed a brief stay with their husbands in jails, a minister said in Ludhiana today.The new jails, which are under construction in the state, have special barracks for the purpose, jail minister Hira Singh Gabria said.He said that this facility will be extended on humanitarian grounds to those prisoners who had been staying in jail for several years and even the newly weds who landed themselves in prison.