Have you ever heard of a home stay in a prison to encourage tourism? Have you ever wondered how jail life is actually like? Is it tough like they show in the movies with bad food and even worse toilet facilities? If you are one of those curious and adventurous souls, the Medak jail in Telangana has just the thing for you.

For just 500 rupees, you can spend a night in a jail cell in Medak and experience “prison life”.

After unveiling many innovative plans for welfare of prisoners, Telangana Prisons Department has come out with the concept of Jail Tourism for people.

Under its new programme of ‘Feel the jail’, a citizen can rent a cell in the Heritage Jail and Museum in Sanga Reddy of Medak district, as per reports.

You get to be an inmate in a jail with the complete experience package. The Medak Jail authorities will give you Khadi dress, steel plate, glass, a steel mug, washing and toilet soap.

During the stay, tourists will be provided only jail food and will live the life of a prisoner. But a fan will be provided to every tourist.

The food is exactly like they give in jails with strict timings.

The Day starts with,

Tea time –  6 to 6.30 a.m.

Breakfast – 7 to 7.30

Lunch – 10.30 to 11

Dinner – 4.30 to 5 p.m.

If you have a doubt whether the food is really “authentic jail” cuisine, it is prepared and sent from the District Jail in Kandi. 

And this is what you have for food –

Breakfast – Chapati.

Lunch  – Pigeon pea with rasam.

Dinner – Curry, rasam, and curd rice.

And no, no one will clean your plates or rooms. There is no room service. As an inmate, you have to clean your own utensils and even the barracks of the jails as a part of the experience.

Coming to the prison work, there is no such work involved, but the tourists are free to plant saplings.

This idea of a jail experience was started after they converted the Sanghareddy prison into a museum. Those who just want to see the jails and not experience it can do it for just Rs. 10 for a complete tour.

So all those who want to ‘understand freedom’ can pay Rs 500 to the Jails department and get ‘24-hour confinement.’ This heritage jail & museum will make people understand how it feels to be in a prison environment.