How Indian jail authorities prevent political prisoners from communicating with their loved ones

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· Jul 12, 2024 · 06:30 am

‘From Phansi Yard’: Sudha Bharadwaj’s writings from Yerawada Jail reflect on paradoxes of freedom

Sharmila Purkayastha

· Feb 11, 2024 · 07:30 am

The SC’s examination of death sentencing is the first step to a justice system aimed at redemption

CP Shruthi Baljeet Kaur

· Oct 20, 2022 · 07:30 am

Centre asks states to monitor books available in prison libraries

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· May 04, 2022 · 09:52 am

Watch: Inmates take dance therapy to improve mental and physical health at Puducherry prison

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· Apr 25, 2022 · 10:36 am

Punjab jail inmate alleges officials tortured him, branded ‘terrorist’ on his back

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· Nov 04, 2021 · 06:42 pm

Interview: Why we should care about the mental health of death row prisoners – and their families

Umang Poddar

· Oct 21, 2021 · 09:00 am

Watch: The moment student activists Natasha Narwal and Devangana Kalita were released from prison

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· Jun 17, 2021 · 08:31 pm

‘In prison, waiting is a habit turning slowly into addiction’: Varavara Rao’s older prison diaries

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· Mar 31, 2021 · 08:30 am

Watch: Comic Munawar Faruqui teams up with musician Nazz for hip-hop song based on his own life

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· Mar 28, 2021 · 05:18 pm

For much of the pandemic, Pakistan has neglected the safety of inmates in its overcrowded jails

Rimmel Mohydin

· Dec 20, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Covid-19: Prisoners bang on walls protesting against casual handling of infected inmates in US jails

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· Sep 29, 2020 · 08:36 pm

‘Frankenstein’ behind bars: How Mary Shelley’s novel is helping women in prisons hope and create

Elizabeth Effinger, The Conversation

· Sep 01, 2019 · 12:30 pm

Watch: Brazilian prisoner dresses as daughter to escape prison, but is caught

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· Aug 06, 2019 · 10:36 am

‘Their toil and sacrifices’: Why Mushirul Hasan (1949-2018) wrote about prisoners in colonial India

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· Dec 11, 2018 · 08:30 am

Bhopal: Women claim they were tested for pregnancy in police custody in front of men

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· Jun 15, 2018 · 03:09 pm

‘A larger jail called Emergency’: A Naxalite’s diary on what went on inside prisons at the time

Ramchandra Singh

· May 28, 2018 · 08:30 am

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit’s prison diary offers an intimate slice of India’s freedom struggle

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

· Apr 05, 2018 · 08:30 am

Unsafe sex and drug use in India’s prisons is leading to high HIV rates

Menaka Rao

· Jan 22, 2018 · 02:30 pm

Should life in prison be worse than outside, on principle?

Chris Barker

· Nov 03, 2017 · 11:30 pm