<span style="color: #222222;">In Uttar Pradesh, Prisons Department has taken a slew of measures on a war footing to forestall the incidence and  spread of Covid- 19 in  jails. Special Task Force has been forged in all 71 operational jails in state and Daily Report is being monitored at the Headquarters. The courts have been requested to conduct remand proceedings 100 per cent through video conference. Trials, if imperative may also be conducted through video conferencing.<br />''<br />''Instructions to restrict the entry of visitors to the minimum have been issued to all jails.<br />''<br />''Director General (Jail ) Anand Kumar told that Isolation Centres and Quarantine Cells have been made functional in jails to prevent the pandemic and every new inmate with suspect symptoms is quarantined for 10 days. Other  inmates of jails with any such symptoms of COVID – 19 are sent to Isolation Cells in the jail hospital. Thermal screening of inmates and visitors has been started.<br />''<br />''To discourage black marketing of masks, triple-layered quality Masks are being stitched in-house in jails and distributed to inmates and jail staff. </span><br />