Dubai Police’s Punitive and Correctional Establishments is developing an online shopping portal to sell these products.

Until the portal goes live, consumers can buy prison-made items at a permanent exhibition that opened in March at the jail. The products will be delivered by police free of charge to buyers in Dubai or for a nominal charge in other emirates.

Officials have not set a target date for the portal to go live, but are hopeful it should be up and running soon.

Major Mohammad Thani Al Falasi, director of the Supplies and Services Department at the General Department of Punitive and Correctional Establishments, said most products are heritage items ranging from traditional wooden and brass boxes (mandoos) and model dhows to garden benches, dried palm-leaf enclosures (areesh) and money boxes. Items such as dolls, decorative metal cages, tables, kandouras, abayas, tissue boxes, bags, pillows are also made by inmates. Details