-Newsclick.in Prison occupancy in India has been on the rise over the past five years with overcrowded jails struggling to cater to the needs of Prisoners. Experts point to the mass incarceration of pre-trial Prisoners. Following an increase in Prison overcrowding in India, critics are calling for new reforms to the judicial process, to decrease the length of trials and reduce the number of inmates. Three out of every four people held in...
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‘Only underprivileged languish in jails’: SC grants bail to 18 life convicts -Abraham Thomas
-Hindustan Times The court also ordered that life convicts who have undergone imPrisonment of 10 years or more be entitled to bail, while those who have stayed for more than 14 years be considered by Allahabad high court for premature release, besides being released on bail. It is only the underprivileged people who have to languish in Prisons as those belonging to the high society escape the country, the Supreme Court observed...
More »Data check: Three out of four Prisoners in Indian jails are undertrials -Nileena Suresh
-India Spend/ Scroll.in While the total number of Prison inmates rose by 1% between 2019 and 2020, the number of undertrial inmates increased by nearly 12% Three in four Prisoners in India’s jails are under trial, according to government data for the year 2020, the latest year for which such data is available. This is the highest share of undertrial detainees in Prison since at least 1995, the earliest year for which...
More »Prison Statistics Report 2020 Shows Govt’s Negligence of Prisoners During the Pandemic -Saranga Ugalmugle and Ancy Susan George
-TheWire.in Contrary to expectations, the report shows that 40,000 more undertrials were held in Prisons in 2020 than in 2019. Congestion in Prisons in India came into renewed focus after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Courts took urgent measures to prevent the spread of the contagious virus in Prisons, asking state governments to set up high powered committees to release incarcerated persons on bail or parole. As a consequence, it is...
More »‘Jai Bhim’ director Tha Se Gnanavel: ‘More brutal than lock-up torture is the silence of society’ -Nandini Ramnath
-Scroll.in The Suriya-led legal drama is based on an actual incident of police brutality in Tamil Nadu. Tha Se Gnanavel’s phone has been ringing non-stop ever since his movie Jai Bhim started streaming on Amazon Prime Video on November 2. “I thought people would say this is a good film, but the response has been far more than expected,” Gnanavel told Scroll.in. “The film has now has led to a discussion. In...
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