prisons
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Karnataka forms high-level panel to examine functioning, security of prisons
Scroll Staff
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No state has confirmed adoption of 2023 Model Prisons Act: Centre tells Rajya Sabha
Scroll Staff
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10,152 Indians jailed in 86 countries: MEA tells parliamentary committee
Scroll Staff
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Centre amends prison manuals to prohibit caste discrimination in jails
Scroll Staff
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Open-air prisons are a humane solution to overcrowded jails – so why doesn’t India use them more?
Vineet Bhalla
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Supreme Court strikes down rules promoting caste-based allocation of work in jails
Scroll Staff
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How an Uruguayan organisation supports families who have relatives in jail
Natalia Uval y Marina Santin, The Human Journalism Network
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SC directs convicts, undertrials released during Covid-19 pandemic to surrender in 15 days
Scroll Staff
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76% of Indian prisoners are awaiting trial. A separate bail law could be the start of a change
Shreehari Paliath, IndiaSpend.com
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Liberty is too precious to be lost: A former SC judge on the decay in the criminal justice system
Madan B Lokur
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Number of prisoners in India increased by 1.5% in 2020 – the first year of pandemic, shows report
Scroll Staff
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UP jail violence: Investigation under way into death of prisoner due to bullet injury
Scroll Staff
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Revise criteria to release prisoners on bail, parole during pandemic: Health professionals to CJI
Scroll Staff
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Covid-19 crisis in Delhi calls for immediate decongestion of jails, plea tells HC judge-led panel
Scroll Staff
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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
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In Delhi’s prisons, coronavirus hit the staff harder than the inmates
Preety Acharya, IndiaSpend.com
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Covid-19 in conflict zones: Nearly half the inmates of two prisons in Kashmir and Assam infected
Safwat Zargar Arunabh Saikia Ipsita Chakravarty
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Why India’s jails remain overcrowded during the pandemic, even as prisoners are released on parole
Vijayta Lalwani
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‘350 inmates in six rooms’: Activist Gautam Navlakha kept in deplorable conditions, says partner
Scroll Staff
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75% of people in India’s overcrowded prisons are awaiting trial. Why aren’t they being given bail?
Sruthisagar Yamunan