A Brazilian prison reform initiative allows inmates to reduce sentences by reading and reflecting on books. Actor R Madhavan highlighted th...

The Bombay High Court has reduced a life sentence to 12 years for a man convicted of raping a five-year-old girl in 2016. The court conside...

A parliamentary panel notes that over 70% of Indian prisoners are undertrials who can't afford bail or fines. They suggest creating state f...

Replying to a question over jail reforms during his tenure in Tihar, Director General (prisons) Sanjay Baniwal said, "We have started skill...

The creation of the 10 posts, including those of senior system analyst, system analyst and eight assistant programmers, will help ease the ...

The Supreme Court Committee on Prison Reforms has recommended that transgender prisoners should be treated equally and given the same right...

Initially, two to three classrooms of the capacity of 50 students in each jail will be constructed and if more rooms are needed in future, ...

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had on Tuesday alleged the Delhi Police put Kejriwal under house arrest after he met farmers protesting against t...

The top cop has alleged “violation of prison laws“ because Sasikala has a special kitchen for herself. According to rules, no prisoner shou...

Parappana Agrahara is hyped to be at the forefront of prison reforms in the state because of the various skill development programmes it or...

The new model prison manual consisting of 32 chapters aims at bringing in basic uniformity in laws, rules and regulations governing the adm...

According to the recent data, there are 404 convicts, who are suffering from mental problems and are in regular need of psychiatric treatme...

Mir Shakil-ur-Rahman, owner of Geo and Jang group, was handed down the prison term in absentia for allowing the broadcast of a "blasphemous...

Sushilkumar Shinde favoured exploring alternative modes of punishment to convicts as sending accused to jail have many adverse effects.

"I visited more than 40 prisons around the world. The reforms which we have been able to do are not seen elsewhere," Bedi said.

The govt has proposed to offer life insurance cover to 2,000 Tihar inmates who have been serving their prison terms after being convicted f...

Government has sold goods worth nearly Rs 30 crore produced by inmates of Tihar jail over the past four years.