The Supreme Court ruled against caste-based discrimination in prisons, declaring it unconstitutional. It ordered the removal of caste refer...

The Supreme Court has nullified discriminatory provisions in state prison manuals, condemning caste-based segregation and labor distributio...

Arvind Kejriwal receives an electric kettle and furniture in Tihar during his judicial custody. The court approves the requests based on hi...

Prisoners over the age of 70 or suffering from serious diseases should be prioritised and action taken to ensure their release within two m...

Under the new system, dishes like 'kheer' and 'seviyan' will also be made in the jail during the major festivals. During Ramzan, arrangemen...

The UP government has moved the top court seeking a direction to the Punjab government and Rupnagar jail authority to immediately hand over...

The court directed the jail authorities to file a compliance report before it within two days. It said if the dentist was not available in ...

Mukesh Singh (32), Pawan Gupta (25), Vinay Sharma (26) and Akshay Kumar Singh (31) are scheduled to be hanged on Friday at 5.30 am for the ...

The new manual is aimed at bringing uniformity in rules and regulations governing the administration of prisons and management of prisoners...

A bench comprising Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta also asked the Ministry of Home Affairs to take urgent steps to ensure proper tr...

The inmates will be provided with a prison uniform made of khadi, a steel meal plate and glass, a mug besides washing soap, bathing soap, b...

HC disposed of appeal filed by Maharashtra government against a ruling of a special TADA Court which had reversed the order of a top offici...

Dutt, who had applied for 14-days' furlough in December 2014, was supposed to return to Yerwada central prison on January 8.

The details of prisoners who are set to be released on a recent Supreme Court order should be put in public domain, the Central Information...

Mobile phone jammers and CCTVs would be installed in all the jails in Maharashtra, the Legislative Assembly was informed today.

Amid reports that VIP facilities are provided to Bibi Jagir Kaur, lodged in Theh Kanjla Jail, a top Punjab Prisons official today ordered a...

Convicted Rajiv Gandhi assassin Nalini Sriharan, who is serving a life sentence in the Vellore Central Jail, has accused prison authorities...