Detaining prisoner without trial amounts to pre-trial punishment; bail is rule, says HCThe Bombay High Court stresses that bail is a norm. Refusal is an exception. Prolonged detention without trial equates to pre-trial punishm...
11 May, 2025, 12.15 PM IST
New criminal laws may help reduce jail overcrowdingThe new criminal laws, known as BNSS, aim to address jail overcrowding by offering leniency to first-time offenders. Bail conditions have b...
05 Jul, 2024, 12.37 AM IST
Speedy trial can become effective tool to address overcrowding in jails, says SC panel on prison reformsThe Supreme Court Committee on Prison Reforms in India has highlighted the "pitiful state of affairs" in the country's prisons, emphasizing...
31 Aug, 2023, 06.36 PM IST
COVID-19 outbreak in Jaipur jail worries authorities; thousands of prisoners released on bail or parole across IndiaThe release of prisoners as a precautionary measure from the last week of March followed a direction by the Supreme Court, and more jail in...
17 May, 2020, 06.30 PM IST
COVID-19: Maharashtra releases 7,200 prisoners to curb overcrowdingIn a bid to decongest state jails due to coronavirus outbreak, the state prisons department has so far released over 7,200 prisoners across...
17 May, 2020, 01.18 PM IST
Union home ministry asks prisons to screen foreign inmates, use videoconferencing for kinMore than 466,084 persons are lodged in 1,318 prisons across India, according to the 2018 report of the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB...
11 Apr, 2020, 08.07 AM IST
Overcrowded jails cause for worry: CJI SA BobdeSocial distancing in such places is difficult, Justice SA Bobde said, even as he sought an action plan from prison authorities throughout t...
16 Mar, 2020, 11.38 PM IST
Nirav Modi to be held in one of England's most overcrowded jailsNirav Modi will be lodged at the prison until he appears for his first case management hearing on March 29
21 Mar, 2019, 06.16 AM IST
Supreme Court forms panel to bring in jail reformsThe Supreme Court on Tuesday set up a panel headed by a retired judge of the court to usher in drastic prison reforms and decongest overcro...
26 Sep, 2018, 08.27 AM IST
Supreme Court shocked at over 600 per cent overcrowding in jails"What's the point in talking about prison reforms when we cannot keep them in jail. We should release them, if you cannot keep them properl...
30 Mar, 2018, 05.52 PM IST
JD(U) member of Rajya Sabha raises issue of paucity of judgesYadav raised the issue in a supplementary during Question Hour after a reply by Minister of State for Home Haribhai Parthibhai Chaudhary on...
04 May, 2016, 02.25 PM IST
Delhi jails 'grossly' overcrowded, prisoners double than capacity: CAGThe report also brought to the notice the poor medical facilities in the jails in Delhi as over 93,224 patients had to be referred to outsi...
30 Jun, 2015, 11.22 PM IST
10 unnatural deaths occur in Indian jails every monthAt 5.9 unnatural deaths per 10,000 inmates, Delhi's jails clock more than twice the national rate of 2.8 per 10,000 inmates.
12 Jun, 2015, 11.05 AM IST
Delhi High Court seeks Centre's, Delhi government's reply on under trial prisonersThe High Court has been dealing with two PILs relating to ensuring minimum human rights to inmates of Tihar Jail here.
11 Feb, 2015, 05.17 PM IST
- West Bengal's second open jail will come up at Durgapur
West Bengal government has decided to set up an "Open Correctional Home"at Durgapur in Burdwan district, the second such home in the state ...
20 Nov, 2013, 03.47 PM IST
- Video conference facility at Maharashtra jails
Video conferencing facility would be installed at jails in Maharashtra to cut expenditure on moving undertrials to courts, home minister RR...
27 Mar, 2010, 03.11 AM IST
- Indian prisons overcrowded by over one lakh
Prisons across the country are bursting at the seams having to lodge about 1.10 lakh convicts and undertrials more than their capacity, wit...
05 Sep, 2008, 02.19 PM IST