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Hooghly District Correctional Home
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Hooghly Jail Jail in West Bengal Hooghly Jail Hooghly Jail or the Hooghly District Correctional Home, is a prison and itself a heritage building situated at Hugli-Chuchura in the Indian state of West Bengal.[\[1\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooghly_Jail#cite_note-1)
Background
Hooghly Jail or the Hooghly District Correctional Home, is a prison and itself a heritage building situated at Hugli-Chuchura in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
434
Current population
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Occupancy
—
Year opened
1817
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 3 Jul 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1817
Region
West Bengal
Security level
—
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
No public contact details available.
Conditions Risk Score
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Compared to other facilities in India
1738 peersCapacity (beds)this: 434 · peers avg: 888 (51%)
Data completeness
42%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- West Bengal Correctional Services Department — Government of West Bengal, India
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikidata (Q110907711)
- Wikipedia
- Wikimedia Commons
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Hooghly District Correctional Home. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hooghly-jail
Chicago
"Hooghly District Correctional Home." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hooghly-jail.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-hooghly-jail,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Hooghly District Correctional Home},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/hooghly-jail},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}