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People are talking about "red building". Surrounded by heavy high walls, human children trapped in iron fences His sufferings and pains do not touch our fast paced normal life Some are pure gold, dark gems, while some are drowned in the dark abyss. The question does not arise in the same world surrounded by four walls of the mysterious separate world how? Note that once all the infrastructures of this world were wrapped in red colorIt is very difficult to find the exact date of the origin of the prison This matter is still waiting to be discovered by historians As far back as prison management can be traced, a palace in London, St Briget well, dates back to 1552 as the first prison. In 1597, the British government took the initiative to establish several more prisons after realizing the utility of prisons from different aspects of state and society. In 1600, prisons were ordered to be built in every county of LondonIn the initial phase, physical labor and discipline of the prisoners were given attention in these prisons However, the concept of Gaol gained considerable importance in England in the eighteenth century Because at that time this type of Gaol was known as death cage All men and women were kept together in rooms with almost no light or air As a result, many women were oppressed In this situation, if the common people become vocal, this system should not be reformed immediately A social figure named John Howard made a great contribution to prison reform at that timeHe visited the prisons for several years (1773 AD-1790 AD) and after writing many articles based on various information, he was able to make several changes in the prison management. 1812 AD The first national prison Milk Bank was established in England Built at a cost of £250,000,000, the Milk Bank consisted of several hundred rooms with a three-kilometre-long verandah, which began in 1812 and was completed in 1821. Wal Nut St. in Philadelphia in 1790 after the United States gained independence. Jail was established as the first state prison Penitentiaries were established in New York City in 1796 and in Maryland in 1829. A school for inmates was later attached to the Maryland prison. In 1832, prisons established in the state of Georgia were the first to reward prisoners with 02 (two) days a month for good behavior and some form of punishment for bad behavior. In 1831 he was allowed to communicate with his relatives in a Vermont prison. Lack of research has limited the availability of specific data on prisons and management in our subcontinent in the distant past. It is known that during the time of King Ashoka of India, the prisoner sentenced to death was kept in a cell for three days. The existence of this type of prison was under the zamindari management After the arrival of the East India Company in the subcontinent, prison management began to emerge in a new form In 1818, the Bengal Act was promulgated for the detention of royal prisoners. Dhaka, Rajshahi, Jessore, Comilla and some district and sub-divisional prisons of present-day Bangladesh were built at that time. However, in 1788 the work of Dhaka Jail started with the construction of a criminal ward In 1864, a co-ordinated program was established in the management of all prisons through the introduction of the Code of rules In April 1927, the first Borstal Institute for juveniles was established at Bakura (India). In undivided Bengal in 1929 Kolkata Presidency, Alipore, Medinipore, Dhaka and Rajshahi were declared as Central Jails. After independence in 1971, the journey of Bangladesh Jail (BDJ) started with 04 central jails, 13 district jails and 43 sub-jails. Later in 1997, the sub-jails were converted into district jails due to increase in the number of inmates Currently, Bangladesh jails are functioning with 13 central jails and 55 district jails