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| prison_name = Visakhapatnam Central Prison<br />
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| location = [[Adavivaram]], Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India<br />
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| opened = 2001<br />
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| managed_by = Director General & Inspector General of Prisons and Correctional Services, [[Government of Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
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The '''Visakhapatnam Central Prison''' is a [[Prison|correctional facility]] in [[Adavivaram]], Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. The facility is located {{convert|14|km|mi}} away from city center.<ref>{{cite news|last=Govt|first=RTI|title=Detail of Prison|url=http://www.ap.gov.in/Other%20Docs/Prisons-RTI-2014-41B-17CHAPTERS-2014%20-05-09-2014.pdf|accessdate=30 September 2010|newspaper=[[Government of Andhra Pradesh]]|date=15 September 2014|archive-date=21 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160421162132/http://www.ap.gov.in//Other%20Docs/Prisons-RTI-2014-41B-17CHAPTERS-2014%20-05-09-2014.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><br />
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The old Central Prison constructed in the year 1908 in the heart of the city, next to the current Bus Station, is converted to a Central Park, and the Prison was shifted to the current location in the year 2001.[http://prisons.ap.gov.in/cpvsp.html]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}<br />
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== Background ==<br />
Visakhapatnam Central Prison, is a facility that provides custody, care, and correction of inmates and is serving the North Coastal Andhra Pradesh districts of Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, and Vizianagaram. As per Andhra Pradesh Prison Manual 1979, Central Prison, Visakhapatnam can confine inmates who are sentenced to simple or rigorous imprisonment, under trial prisoners, civil prisoners, prisoners sentenced to death and detenues.[http://prisons.ap.gov.in/cpvsp.html]{{Dead link|date=August 2025 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}<br />
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== Capacity ==<br />
The capacity of the prison is 914 but as on 19 August 2023, it has 1900 inmates. Around 1500 are prisoners are booked under NDPS Act. While most of the inmates are tribals of the ASR district who were allegedly carrying ganja, some prisoners are from Odisha, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu and Bihar. About hundred of them are female prisoners. But most of them are in on remand.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-08-11 |title=Vizag central prison overflowing with drug offenders |work=The Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/visakhapatnam/vizag-central-prison-overflowing-with-drug-offenders/articleshow/102629095.cms |access-date=2023-12-14 |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><br />
[[File:Visakhapatnam Central Jail Complex.JPG|alt=Visakhapatnam Central Jail Complex|thumb|Visakhapatnam Central Jail Complex]]<br />
The current superintendent of Vizag central prison is S Kishore Kumar.<br />
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[[Category:Prisons in Andhra Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Visakhapatnam]]<br />
[[Category:Uttarandhra]]<br />
[[Category:2001 establishments in India]]<br />
[[Category:Prisons completed in the 2000s]]<br />
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