New Delhi: Union minister Ajay Kumar Mishra on Thursday inaugurated a national conference on prisons organised by the BPRD, a department of the Home Ministry.

The 61 year old Minister of State for Home Affairs attended the conference at the headquarters of the Bureau of Police Research and Development in the Mahipalpur area of the national capital and addressed prison department officers who represented various states and union territories, said the sources.

Jail systems must have provisions for providing training and skill development for people living inside prisons and aftercare programmes, Mishra said, as per a Home Ministry statement.