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prison conditions

  • Women prisoners’ access to basic facilities worse than men, says SC panel

    Women prisoners’ access to basic facilities worse than men, says SC panel

    Scroll Staff
    · Sep 06, 2023 · 10:22 am
  • What a string of deaths in one jail says about the state of Jammu and Kashmir’s prisons

    What a string of deaths in one jail says about the state of Jammu and Kashmir’s prisons

    Safwat Zargar
    · Mar 02, 2023 · 06:30 am
  • Judiciary should consider decongesting jails more seriously, says Sudha Bharadwaj

    Judiciary should consider decongesting jails more seriously, says Sudha Bharadwaj

    Scroll Staff
    · Jan 11, 2022 · 01:35 pm
  • Bhima Koregaon: Letters to families, lawyers scanned by jail official, allege 10 arrested activists

    Bhima Koregaon: Letters to families, lawyers scanned by jail official, allege 10 arrested activists

    Scroll Staff
    · Aug 27, 2021 · 01:24 pm
  • In pictures: The woeful state of prisons in Rajasthan – and a hopeful alternative

    In pictures: The woeful state of prisons in Rajasthan – and a hopeful alternative

    Nithya Subramanian
    · Nov 29, 2019 · 06:30 am
  • Sasikala didn’t violate prison rules, claims of special treatment are wrong, says her lawyer

    Sasikala didn’t violate prison rules, claims of special treatment are wrong, says her lawyer

    Scroll Staff
    · Jan 22, 2019 · 12:19 pm
  • Panel investigating Sasikala’s prison facilities finds drug abuse, mobile phone use high there

    Panel investigating Sasikala’s prison facilities finds drug abuse, mobile phone use high there

    Scroll Staff
    · Jan 21, 2019 · 10:44 am
  • Supreme Court to set up committee to examine problems in prisons

    Supreme Court to set up committee to examine problems in prisons

    Scroll Staff
    · Aug 08, 2018 · 02:16 pm
  • Supreme Court asks states to take measures to reduce unnatural deaths in prisons

    Supreme Court asks states to take measures to reduce unnatural deaths in prisons

    Scroll Staff
    · Sep 16, 2017 · 08:40 am