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India: Kerala government counts losses as COVID-19 scare hits sale of prison food
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
India: Coimbatore prison inmates to grow sugarcane
COIMBATORE: As part of a series of efforts aimed to encourage agriculture activity among prison inmates, Coimbatore central prison authorities have planned to begin sugarcane cultivation at Open Air Jail (OAJ) campus in Ondipudur.Source — The Indian Express
India: prison system needs urgent reform
The 2018 statistics on prison must spur the criminal justice system to assess, evaluate and take affirmative steps.Source — Hindustan Times
India: prison rule stands in way of quick hanging
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
India: Kerala capital gets first beauty parlour run by inmates of Poojapura Central Prison
The initiative is part of the various rehabilitation programmes taken up by the Prison Department for the prisoners.Source — The New Indian Express
India: Shivamogga central prison to soon get digital library
The Central Prison in Shivamogga will soon have a digital library on its campus. The jail is already home to a library which has a collection of over 10,000 books.Source — New Indian Express
India: death in prison increased by 5.49 % in 2017 against 2015
The number of unnatural deaths in prisons has increased by 15.7 per cent from 115 in 2015 to 133 in 2017.Source — India Today
India : central prison to get its own radio station soon
The foundation has installed the equipment and connected them with 24 speakers in every nook and corner of the prison.
India: an oasis of knowledge within Tihar prison walls
From computer applications to English, inmates are learning and imparting new skills to each other at an institute opened recently on jail premisesSource — The Hindu
India: human rights panel finds 91 prisoners with broken bones in Chennai prison
National human rights commission has ordered Rs 3 lakh compensation to one such victim and initiate criminal action on responsible officers.Source — New India Express
India: overcrowding, inadequate staff and lack of menstrual products in Haryana prisons: study
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
India: inmates, police clash in Ludhiana Central Jail
A violent clash broke out between inmates and police officers at Punjab’s Ludhiana Central Jail on Thursday, leaving one inmate dead and five injured. Around half a dozen police personnel also sustained injuries.Source — The Hindu
India: Amnesty International highlights human rights violations in Indian-occupied Kashmir
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…Source — GEO TV
India: Inmates climb atop Madurai Central Prison building to stage stir
According to prison officials, the prisoners climbed atop block-3 building using the windows after strict checking to curb ganja smuggling was enforced.Source — The New Indian Express
India: should 400,000 prisoners get to vote in the 2019 election?
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
India: overcrowding prisons a violation of human rights, says Supreme Court
There are several prisons where the overcrowding is well beyond 100% and in some cases it exceeds 150%.Source — The Hindu
India: women denied jail benefits HC asks why
Why are women prisoners in Tihar Jail being denied the benefit of semi-open and open prisons, the Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government and the jail authorities.Source — The Hindu
India: bail must not just be for rich
No one should be jailed simply because they are poor. That was the rationale brought up by a recent online campaign calling for changes to the existing bail process.Source — Bangkok Post
India: parliamentary panel finds inhuman condition inside Mumbai’s Byculla jail
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
India: does anyone care what happens to women prisoners in jails?
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.Source — One India
India : Police torture reportedly leads to couple attempting self-immolation
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.Source — The Covai Post
India: inmate’s death sparks riot in Byculla women’s prison
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
India: prison riot: 350 inmates fight inside Dum Dum jail
KOLKATA: Around 350 inmates of Dum Dum Central Jail divided themselves into two groups of undertrials and convicts and fought a pitched battle on the jail premises since Tuesday morning. The violence -unprecedented in the recent history of the jail -left at least 13 people injured.Source — The Times of India
India: why death penalty is not the answer to sexual violence in India
The death penalty is a distraction from the real measures that India needs to take to protect women’s rights to safety, writes Gopika Bashi of Amnesty International. Earlier this month in the Rohtak district of India’s northern state of Haryana, two men were arrested after the body of a young Dalit woman…Source — BBC
