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The platform includes articles from external sources to supplement its available information. Reporting on the state of prisons around the world is a complex, laborious task. The Prison Insider team develops a weekly press review in three languages in order to provide wider coverage of current events in the world’s prisons. This monitoring process helps promote journalism by various media and reflects a commitment to transparency and collaboration.
India: in jails, many are young, poorly educated and awaiting trial
More than half a million Indians are in prisons across the country, three in four of them are undertrials, of whom nearly half are aged between 18 and 30 years.
Source: Scroll.in (15/11/2025)