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India: remote hearings and the rights of accused persons
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ICPR and Prison Insider asked several experts worldwide to share their insights in the framework of the project ‘Understanding and reducing the use of imprisonment in 10 countries’. Madhurima Dhanuka discusses the impact of remote hearings on fair trials.
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Even as the Bombay High Court has suggested shifting undertrial prisoners from crowded jails to other jails for an “equitable distribution” in light of an alarming rise in Covid-19 case, data from the prison department shows that nearly all prisons in the state are filled to capacity or are overcrowded.
Apart…
Source — The indian express
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Maharashtra prison department has started Covid-19 vaccination drive for the inmates at Arthur Road Jail or Mumbai Central Prison. Around 39 inmates were vaccinated till Saturday.
Sunil Ramanand, additional director general of police, Maharashtra prison department, confirmed that the vaccination drive…
Source — Hindustantimes
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Violence, misgendering, medical negligence and routine denial of legal aid — are what mark the experience of transgender inmates in prisons across India. In her reports for The Wire, Sukanya Shantha tracks how vulnerable one such group — the transgender community — is in India’s prisons.
Sukanya finds…
Source — The Wire
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For over 70- years, the Rajasthan state had followed an unconstitutional and violative prison manual that allowed assignment of labour on the basis of a prisoner’s caste. This institutionalised caste practice had continued unchallenged until The Wire’s report exposed the conditions in prisons of Rajasthan…
Source — The Wire Impact
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Inmates from Jail Number 14 described the conditions in the jail as bheed-bichham (stuffed), jaanvaron jaisa vyavhar (animalistic behaviour), and insaan bhi nahi samajhte (inhumane).
They felt the inmates who tested positive for the virus were kept in even more deplorable conditions, evoking pity and…
Source — The Justice Gap
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Caste-based labour, in fact, is sanctioned in the prison manuals of many states. The colonial texts of the late 19th century have barely seen any amendments, and caste-based labour remains an untouched part of these manuals. While every state has its own unique prison manual, they are mostly based on…
Source — The Wire
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The National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) has agreed to include transgender as a separate category in the gender classification of prisoners in their annual publication of prison statistics 2020, it informed the Delhi High Court on Monday.
Additional Solicitor General Chetan Sharma told a Division Bench…
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THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Covid-19 outbreak has affected all sorts of businesses and the Prisons Department in Kerala is no different. The department’s prestigious initiative ‘Food for Freedom’ has taken a hit owing to the decrease in demand forcing the authorities to scale down production.
The food production…
Source — The New Indian Express
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The 2018 statistics on prison must spur the criminal justice system to assess, evaluate and take affirmative steps.
Source — Hindustan Times
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NEW DELHI: A proviso in the revised 2018 Delhi Prison Manual now stands between the timely execution of the four Nirbhaya convicts on February 1 and the possibility of a further delay.
Source — Times Of India
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The initiative is part of the various rehabilitation programmes taken up by the Prison Department for the prisoners.
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Undignified body searches, absence of proper health and hygiene facilities for female prisoners, inadequate staff, overcrowding and racism are some of the issues afflicting prisons in Haryana, a study by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and Haryana State Legal Services Authority has revealed.
Source — The Wire
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The Amnesty International said on Wednesday that the Jammu and Kashmir Public Safety Act (PSA) circumvents the criminal justice system in the Indian-occupied Kashmir to undermine accountability, transparency and respect for human rights.
The briefing, “Tyranny of A ‘Lawless Law’: Detention without Charge…
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India’s preparing to vote again. Some 900 million of its 1.3 billion people are expected to exercise their franchise over April and May.
Amidst this massive celebration of democracy, a small but significant section of the population is still waiting to know whether it will be part of the process. These…
Source — Quartz
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