Indian Prisons

A policeman, an inmate and prison-made technology: Rethinking how convicts can spend time in jail

While incarcerated, Amit Mishra — a software engineer accused of dowry harassment (charges that the court acquitted him for 14 months later) — built an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform that fully automates all prison operations. DSP Harinder Singh, who prompted Mishra to spend his time in prison productively, has a kindly view of those who have come up against the judicial system.

1,700 died in overcrowded prisons in 2014; 89 percent of natural causes

As many as 1,702 prisoners died in jails nationwide in 2014, according to this reply by the ministry of home affairs to the Lok Sabha (Parliament’s lower house) in August 2016.

No parole for rapists, murderers in Maharashtra: State Prisons Rules amended

Convicts serving jail sentence for rape, rape and murder and dacoity in Maharashtra will not be eligible for "regular" parole, as per the amendments to the prison rules made in the backdrop of a convict jumping parole in a sensational murder case in Mumbai.

Install CCTVs in prisons, SC tells centre, states

SC directed the central government and all the states to install CCTV cameras in all prisons across the country and take a call on installing them in police lock-ups, if there are incidents.

Bikaner jail inmates stone fellow prisoners to death

Three prisoners were stoned to death, while two others sustained injuries after a clash broke out between inmates in the Central Jail here, a top official said today.