In Assam, the concern for Jail Administration goes back to the period starting with the coming of the British East India Company in 1826. John M’Cosh in his “Topography of Assam”(1837) mentions the conditions in the jails of Gauhati and Goalpara in the year 1833. Lord Macaulay, the first law Member in the Governor General’s Council was instrumental in appointing a Committee in the year 1836 to look into the conditions in Indian Prisons. The recommendations of the committee were largely influenced by the requirement of the British Raj…