Prisons

‘Women are doubly marginalised in jails’: Hurdles to gender-sensitive prison reforms

Patriarchal assumptions regarding female criminality result in double vilification of women offenders and forecloses their way to reform and rehabilitation

Indian-origin cult leader Aravindan Balakrishnan jailed for rape dies in UK prison

Balakrishnan, known to his followers as Comrade Bala, was sentenced for six counts of indecent assault, four counts of rape and two counts of actual bodily harm back in 2016

MHA asks states to safeguard rights of transgender people in prisons

Under the Transgender Persons (Protection of Rights) Act, 2019, a separate enclosure or wards for transgender inmates for transmen and transwomen may be ensured and also they should be separate from male and female wards or enclosure in prisons

Mexico: Armed group rams vehicles into prison, escapes with nine inmates

Authorities said two vehicles were burned as well as part of the criminal group's operation, as a distraction

NCRB data shows Muslims, Dalits, Tribal population in prisons disproportionate to their numbers outside

Muslims make up only 14.2 percent of India's population but 16.6 percent convicts, 18.7 percent undertrials and 35.8 percent detenues followed Islam as of 31 December 2019, shows NCRB data

Coronavirus Outbreak: With 61,621 inmates over 50 years lodged in 1,399 prisons, huge challenge for India to insulate jails from pandemic

The court should also proactively provide bail to undertrials unless it is necessary to send the person to judicial custody.

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.

Indian jails overcrowded, understaffed, reveals NCRB report; most prisoners are undertrials, over 70% of them haven't studied till Class 10

According to the report, at the end of 2017, 68.5 percent of the total prisoners in India were undertrials and 30.9 percent were convicts.

K Shanmugam appointed as Tamil Nadu Chief Secretary, JK Tripathy is new police chief

The Tamil Nadu government named K Shanmugam as Chief Secretary with the incumbent Girija Vaidyanathan retiring tomorrow and JK Tripathy as the Director General of Police.

Clashes between prisoners in Brazil's Amazonas claim 15 lives; authorities say victims were killed with sharpened toothbrushes

Some of the inmates were stabbed with sharpened toothbrushes, while others had been strangled, Brazil's Colonel Almeida said, adding that an investigation has been opened to determine the cause of the fight