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{{Short description|Jail in West Bengal}}
{{Infobox prison
| name = Hooghly Jail
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| location = Hugli-Chuchura
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| status = Operational
| classification = District Correctional Home
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| opened = 1817
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| managed_by = Government of West Bengal
| city = Hugli-Chuchura
| county = Hooghly district
| state = West Bengal
| country = India
| prisoners = Kazi Nazrul Islam (briefly)
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'''Hooghly Jail''' or the '''Hooghly District Correctional Home''', is a prison and itself a heritage building situated at [[Hugli-Chuchura]] in the [[India|Indian]] state of [[West Bengal]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Heritage Commission, West Bengal|url=https://wbhc.in/home/place_list/NWU0MjQ3Yjc0OWEzYmI2NGVkZmZjMzZlZGIwZjc5YjEwYzdlN2ZkMDc0NmQ3YTE4ZGI4YzQwNjU5NmI3M2IxMjhiY2JiNGUzYzRlY2FjNzg1ZjBhYzg3MDZhNzMyZWVkZjdlNmEwYjYxZDViYWFhZjBlOWVjZTdmZDFlNGUyZmRJMmNnNG1IQm1reFl5S3hmNktFbTl4dXBKWjBNT055Q2oxb3Z5WG5FVDA4PQ== |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220314/https://wbhc.in/home/place_list/NWU0MjQ3Yjc0OWEzYmI2NGVkZmZjMzZlZGIwZjc5YjEwYzdlN2ZkMDc0NmQ3YTE4ZGI4YzQwNjU5NmI3M2IxMjhiY2JiNGUzYzRlY2FjNzg1ZjBhYzg3MDZhNzMyZWVkZjdlNmEwYjYxZDViYWFhZjBlOWVjZTdmZDFlNGUyZmRJMmNnNG1IQm1reFl5S3hmNktFbTl4dXBKWjBNT055Q2oxb3Z5WG5FVDA4PQ== |archive-date=2022-03-14 |url-status=live|access-date=2022-02-13|website=wbhc.in}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:Hooghly district Correctional Home at Hooghly- Chinsurah 08.jpg|thumb|Hooghly Jail]]
This is one of the oldest prison center of West Bengal since [[East India Company rule]]. The jail was founded in 1817 beside the [[Hooghly River]]. Primarily the jail building was a private doweling house of a native Indian and the ration system of the jail was introduced in 1836.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Toynbee|first=George|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ygY3AQAAMAAJ&dq=hooghly+jail&pg=PA58|title=A Sketch of the Administration of the Hooghly District from 1795 to 1845: With Some Account of the Early English, Portuguese, Dutch, French and Danish Settlements|date=1888|publisher=Bengal Secretatiat Press|language=en}}</ref> During the British rule, political prisoners were kept here in solitary confinement. [[Kazi Nazrul Islam]], the [[Bengalis|Bengali]] revolutionary poet was incarcerated in a solitary cell of this jail 14 April 1923 to 17 June 1923.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Official Website of West Bengal Correctional Services, India – History Heritage|url=http://wbcorrectionalservices.gov.in/history_heritage04.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190429144000/http://wbcorrectionalservices.gov.in/history_heritage04.html |archive-date=2019-04-29 |url-status=live|access-date=2022-02-13|website=wbcorrectionalservices.gov.in}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=tni|date=2015-08-31|title=HOOGHLY JAIL CLASH & FIRE: CONCERN ABOUT POET KAZI NAZRUL'S HERITAGE CELL|url=https://timesofnorth.in/2015/08/31/hooghly-jail-clash-fire-concern-about-poet-kazi-nazruls-heritage-cell/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220314/https://timesofnorth.in/2015/08/31/hooghly-jail-clash-fire-concern-about-poet-kazi-nazruls-heritage-cell/ |archive-date=2022-03-14 |url-status=live|access-date=2022-02-13|website=timesofnorth.IN|language=en-US}}{{cbignore}}</ref> He wrote a few patriotic poems while he was imprisoned at Hooghly Jail.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Muzaffar Ahmad|title=Kazi Nazrul Islam: Smritikotha|publisher=National Book Agency|year=2009|location=Kolkata|pages=171|language=Bengali}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=জেলের সেই দিন আর কবিতার দুপুর |url=https://www.anandabazar.com/editorial/kazi-nazrul-islam-was-in-berhampur-central-jail-in-his-last-lap-of-captivity-1.1095034 |access-date=9 September 2025}}</ref>

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[[Category:Prisons in West Bengal]]
[[Category:Law enforcement in West Bengal]]
[[Category:1817 establishments in British India]]
[[Category:Prisons completed in the 1810s]]

Hooghly Jail - Revision history

BrooksPrather at 13:42, 29 January 2026