THE Punjab government is spending Rs5bn on modernising jail facilities in the province, but to what end? The provincial home department’s shopping list is quite something to behold: reportedly, more than 12,000 modern cameras are to be installed in Punjab’s prisons, as well as “615 panic buttons, 1,525 public address systems, 369 body cameras, 615 walkie-talkie systems and 41 X-ray body scanners [...] In addition, 82 under-vehicle surveillance systems and 787 facial recognition access devices will also be........

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