Open-air prisons are a humane solution to overcrowded jails – so why doesn’t India use them more?

Vineet Bhalla

· Yesterday · 08:00 am

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

Scroll Staff

· Oct 03, 2024 · 05:02 pm

How an Uruguayan organisation supports families who have relatives in jail

Natalia Uval y Marina Santin, The Human Journalism Network

· Jun 01, 2024 · 11:30 am

SC directs convicts, undertrials released during Covid-19 pandemic to surrender in 15 days

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· Mar 24, 2023 · 08:36 pm

76% of Indian prisoners are awaiting trial. A separate bail law could be the start of a change

Shreehari Paliath, IndiaSpend.com

· Aug 28, 2022 · 01:30 pm

Liberty is too precious to be lost: A former SC judge on the decay in the criminal justice system

Madan B Lokur

· Jul 22, 2022 · 09:00 am

Number of prisoners in India increased by 1.5% in 2020 – the first year of pandemic, shows report

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· Feb 09, 2022 · 07:35 pm

UP jail violence: Investigation under way into death of prisoner due to bullet injury

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· Nov 09, 2021 · 01:49 pm

Revise criteria to release prisoners on bail, parole during pandemic: Health professionals to CJI

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· Jun 28, 2021 · 04:51 pm

Covid-19 crisis in Delhi calls for immediate decongestion of jails, plea tells HC judge-led panel

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· May 04, 2021 · 07:37 pm

As India’s courts went virtual, lack of technology in jails became a major hurdle to justice

Shreehari Paliath, IndiaSpend.com Shreya Raman, IndiaSpend.com

· Jan 31, 2021 · 01:30 pm

In Delhi’s prisons, coronavirus hit the staff harder than the inmates

Preety Acharya, IndiaSpend.com

· Oct 03, 2020 · 09:30 pm

Covid-19 in conflict zones: Nearly half the inmates of two prisons in Kashmir and Assam infected

Safwat Zargar Arunabh Saikia Ipsita Chakravarty

· Jul 21, 2020 · 09:00 am

Why India’s jails remain overcrowded during the pandemic, even as prisoners are released on parole

Vijayta Lalwani

· Jun 30, 2020 · 09:00 am

‘350 inmates in six rooms’: Activist Gautam Navlakha kept in deplorable conditions, says partner

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· Jun 22, 2020 · 12:47 pm

75% of people in India’s overcrowded prisons are awaiting trial. Why aren’t they being given bail?

Sruthisagar Yamunan

· Jun 03, 2020 · 10:48 am

Covid-19: SC asks states to consider releasing prisoners on parole, bail to decongest jails

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· Mar 23, 2020 · 03:32 pm

In six charts: The state of justice in India

Nithya Subramanian

· Nov 14, 2019 · 06:30 am

Brazil: At least 57 killed in prison riot, 16 of them decapitated

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· Jul 30, 2019 · 10:18 am

Supreme Court to set up committee to examine problems in prisons

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· Aug 08, 2018 · 02:16 pm