Sir: Though police is around us everywhere, but it is almost a different spectacle seeing them inside jail premises. The way they treat the prisoners and their visitors is a tale of shame. For a visitor to have a meeting with a prisoner, he has to go through three points of inspection, and at each point police charges the following bribe rates per person: 1. Initial entry point, cell phone deposit Rs 30/mobile. 2. Next entry point, name registration and checking the NIC card, Rs. 300/person. 3. Inside the gate where the identification mark on neck and arm is stamped, Rs. 30 is charged. This means that someone coming to see a prisoner has to spend Rs 360 on every visit. As per a rough estimate, approximately 200 people come to visit prisoners. It means around 60,000 to 70,000 rupees are earned each day through this illegal system — that makes an average of Rs 1,950,000 per month and Rs 23,400,000 per year. That is not the end of the story. Police takes Rs 6,000 per prisoner as the imprisonment sentence starts. If anybody does not pay, he is forced to mop floors or wash bathrooms. In short, police uses coercive tools to obtain the sum from the inmates. Since not all prisoners are necessarily criminals, and some are locked up on false allegations, their relatives face trouble due to the corrupt practice of police in jail. The police are looting the innocent people. MANZOOR HUSSAIN RAJPER Khairpur