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Secure custody of prisoners inside a prison is the primary responsibility of the Prison Department. The overall objective of reform and rehabilitation has to be pursued within the framework of custody. Further, prison custody implies certain restrictions on the basic rights of prisoners as human beings under the process of incarceration that prisoners are required to undergo. Custody and control of prisoner outside prison.