Telangana Tourism – jail time included

Tourists become prisoners here. They get locked up at the Sangareddy District Jail in the Indian state of Telangana. They call it Telangana tourism.

Tourists become prisoners here. They get locked up at the Sangareddy District Jail in the Indian state of Telangana. They call it Telangana tourism.

A 200-year-old former jail in southern India offers tourists the chance to live a day in the life of a prisoner.



You don’t have to be an adventure trafeler to the colonial-era Sangareddy District. If you decide to stay in jail as a tourist a basic jail clothes, basic bedding, soap and eating utensils will come with your cell for Rs 500.00 or about US$ 7.50

Besides promoting tourism, spending a night in jail could educate people on how tough life is behind bars. These are the words by Vinoy Kumar Singh, the state’s director-general of prisons.

The message to tourism visiting Telangana: Get away from crime.




Intended as a cavalry barracks after being built in 1796, the buildings were later converted into a prison. That was closed in 2012, and is now a museum displaying paintings and other artifacts related to crime and prison life in India.

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Juergen Thomas Steinmetz has continuously worked in the travel and tourism industry since he was a teenager in Germany (1977).
He founded eTurboNews in 1999 as the first online newsletter for the global travel tourism industry.

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