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  • Centre amends prison manuals to prohibit caste discrimination in jails

    Centre amends prison manuals to prohibit caste discrimination in jails

    Scroll Staff
    · Jan 02, 2025 · 11:36 am
  • Supreme Court strikes down rules promoting caste-based allocation of work in jails

    Supreme Court strikes down rules promoting caste-based allocation of work in jails

    Scroll Staff
    · Oct 03, 2024 · 05:02 pm
  • Eight out of ten Indian prisoners were awaiting trial in 2021, report shows

    Eight out of ten Indian prisoners were awaiting trial in 2021, report shows

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  • Children of women prisoners in India struggle to get proper food and education despite guidelines

    Children of women prisoners in India struggle to get proper food and education despite guidelines

    Shreehari Paliath, IndiaSpend.com Preety Acharya, IndiaSpend.com
    · Oct 09, 2020 · 07:30 pm
  • Coronavirus: Gauhati HC registers suo motu plea over rising cases in Assam prisons

    Coronavirus: Gauhati HC registers suo motu plea over rising cases in Assam prisons

    Scroll Staff
    · Jul 23, 2020 · 11:03 pm
  • Nurturing cows lessens criminal mindsets of prisoners, claims Mohan Bhagwat

    Nurturing cows lessens criminal mindsets of prisoners, claims Mohan Bhagwat

    Scroll Staff
    · Dec 08, 2019 · 01:41 pm
  • Sold as a humane alternative to jail, ankle bracelets are driving US defendants into debt

    Sold as a humane alternative to jail, ankle bracelets are driving US defendants into debt

    Ava Kofman, ProPublica
    · Jul 15, 2019 · 09:30 pm
  • Should life in prison be worse than outside, on principle?

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

    Chris Barker
    · Nov 03, 2017 · 11:30 pm
  • Death behind bars: 1,700 died in overcrowded Indian prisons in 2014

    Death behind bars: 1,700 died in overcrowded Indian prisons in 2014

    Silvio Grocchetti, IndiaSpend
    · Sep 17, 2016 · 08:30 pm