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What numbers don’t tell us -Maitreyi Misra

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published Published on Sep 19, 2022   modified Modified on Sep 19, 2022

-The Hindu

Prisons are meant to facilitate rehabilitation but have become disempowering spaces with a mental health crisis

The latest numbers are out. 9,180 prisoners with mental illness, 150 deaths by suicide, five prisoners with schizophrenia and epilepsy have died.

While we know the numbers, we do not know what is being considered as a mental illness and whether these numbers are limited to persons who are in the mental health ward, or does it also include those who are living in barracks but still on psychiatric medication. We also do not know when the onset of the illness was and what the different illnesses were or how long they have been in prison for. The National Crime Records Bureau’s (NCRB) Prison Statistics India Report is out for the year 2021. Perhaps it needs repeating, yet again that there is a mental health crisis in prisons.

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The Hindu, 19 September, 2022, https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/what-numbers-dont-tell-us/article65906099.ece?homepage=true


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