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Prison is the system of punishment which will consist of convicts and suspected person in under trial. In the present scenario every society is packed with crime and criminal the institution of prison becomes an unavoidable one. In ancient India also there were a system of prison which is used to punish the people who act against the norms, rules and laws. During British Period the Indian penal code was enacted and the punishment was awarded to the wrongdoers; even several Indians were charged under Indian penal code for the freedom fight movement. The applicability of Indian penal code is also called as slavery code on that time. Even after Independence still now we have same penal act but the enforcement of the Indian penal code is more reformative and rehabilitation the theory of reformative is upgraded on Indian prisons. This paper is to bring out the existence of Prison reformation in the State of Tamil Nadu, Especially in Puzhal central prison.