News March 14, 2019 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. T…
News May 13, 2018 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%.
News October 5, 2017 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.
News September 23, 2017 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.
News August 21, 2017 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.
News July 8, 2017 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 jail…
News June 27, 2017 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.
News June 25, 2017 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…
News June 14, 2017 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.
News May 31, 2017 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…
News May 24, 2017 India : law panel for cut in undertrials’ jail time The Law Commission is ready to submit to the Centre a set of recommendations intended to bring in revolutionary changes in bail jurisprudence which, if implemented, would help the release of the poor among the over 2.38 lakh undertrial prisoners languishing in jails for years.
News April 25, 2017 India: 404 prisoners in Odisha pass the test 194 cleared NIOS exams, 187 completed IGNOU courses, says jail official
News March 31, 2017 India: inmates in Bagalkot prison go on hunger strike, demand better quality food The prisoners complained of bad food quality.
News March 21, 2017 Inde : comment sortir d’une prison quand on est innocent ? This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
News January 2, 2017 India: video evidence of corruption in various jails in Maharashtra The Anti-Corruption Bureau is in possession of video evidence of corruption in various jails in Maharashtra. The clips were submitted by a person who was not allowed to meet his relative lodged in Thane Jail until he paid a bribe to the jail staffers. Taken aback by the demand for the bribe, scienc…
News November 3, 2016 Inde : une évasion digne d’un mauvais scénario de film Sorry, this article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
News October 31, 2016 India: Indian police kill 8 militants who fled from prison Indian police Monday gunned down eight suspected militants of the banned group Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in an encounter, hours after they escaped from a high-security prison in the central state of Madhya Pradesh’s capital Bhopal.
News October 17, 2016 India : undertrial prisoners in India equals population of Barbados An IndiaSpend analysis of available data reveals the extent of the problem: Between 2010 and 2014, 25 per cent undertrials had been jailed for more than one year. The percentage of undertrials to total prisoners has remained over 65 per cent during this period. In 2014, seven in 10 prisoners were u…
News September 15, 2016 India : 1,700 died in overcrowded prisons in 2014 ; 89 % of natural causes As many as 1,702 prisoners died in jails nationwide in 2014, according to this reply by the ministry of home affairs to the Lok Sabha (Parliament’s lower house) in August 2016. While 1,507 (89 percent) died of natural causes, 195 (11 percent) died of unnatural causes, such as “suicide, execution, m…
News September 8, 2016 India : 41 prisoners from Nashik Jail alone jumped parole in 3 yrs Mumbai: Parole rules in the state were amended last month following the uproar over convict Sajjad Mughal, sentenced to life for murdering lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha, who jumped parole in April. But data shows in the last three years, 41 people convicted for serious crimes jumped parole from Nashik…
News September 6, 2016 India : 100 prisoners on hunger strike at Haridwar dist jail Hundred prisoners went on a hunger strike at the district jail here today demanding release of 57 inmates who had already served 14 years of their life imprisonment sentences prompting jail administration to issue notices to them asking to end their stir. The jail superintendent informed the state…