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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…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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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…
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There are several prisons where the overcrowding is well beyond 100% and in some cases it exceeds 150%.
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A 20-member team of women MPs which visited Byculla jail last month to study the conditions inside the prison, found inhuman treatment of women prisoners.
Source — Hindustan Times
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Locked up behind iron bars, stuffed into the darkest corners of prison complexes, women prisoners in India face discrimination every day. From something as simple as recreation to something as complex as harassment and assault, many women prisoners live a life that is oppressive in most Indian jails.
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Tension prevailed at the district collectorate here today when a couple attempted to self-immolate accusing an police inspector and a retired Assistant Commissioner of police (ACP) of giving torture over a financial transaction with a private lender.
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The death of an inmate, allegedly after being assaulted by prison guards, at the women’s prison in Byculla on Friday evening led to a riot by inmates that continued through the night and subsided only on Saturday morning. Enraged inmates set newspapers and furniture on fire and shouted slogans from the…
Source — The Hindu
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