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

    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?

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

    Chris Barker
    · Nov 03, 2017 · 11:30 pm
  • ‘You never forget the sound of a body dropping into the pit’: An eye witness account of an execution

    ‘You never forget the sound of a body dropping into the pit’: An eye witness account of an execution

    Sohail Yafat
    · Oct 13, 2017 · 07:30 pm
  • Watch how women inmates of a Colombian prison are running a restaurant from behind the bars

    Watch how women inmates of a Colombian prison are running a restaurant from behind the bars

    Reuters
    · Oct 07, 2017 · 04:30 pm
  • This is how wealthy prisoners can get luxuries in jail (just like Sasikala did?)

    This is how wealthy prisoners can get luxuries in jail (just like Sasikala did?)

    Sunetra Choudhury
    · Jul 14, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • How the ‘tandoor murderer’ Sushil Sharma spends his days in Tihar Jail

    How the ‘tandoor murderer’ Sushil Sharma spends his days in Tihar Jail

    Sunetra Choudhury
    · Apr 18, 2017 · 08:30 am
  • There are 2.8 lakh undertrials in Indian prisons – equal to the population of Barbados

    There are 2.8 lakh undertrials in Indian prisons – equal to the population of Barbados

    Sneha Alexander, Indiaspend.com
    · Oct 18, 2016 · 10:30 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
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