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SC directs states, UTs to furnish updated details on prisons, including overcrowdingThe Supreme Court has ordered all states and Union territories to submit updated jail statistics by May 18. This includes prison capacity, ...- Delhi crime files: Half the prison cells are filled with youth aged 21–30; Is the capital losing its future behind bars?Delhi Crime: Nearly 50% of Delhi's 18,969 prisoners are between 21 and 30 years old, with over 55% under 30. Poverty, unemployment, and the...
- MHA asks states, UTs to utilise Central fund to help poor prisoners obtain bailThe Ministry of Home Affairs has urged states and union territories to utilize the 'Support to Poor Prisoners Scheme' to aid inmates unable...
- Italian prison opens its first sex room for inmatesItaly has inaugurated its first sex room for prisoners, following a Constitutional Court ruling that recognized inmates' right to intimate ...
- Get a fix on how we fill our prisonsIndia's overcrowded prisons, with occupancy exceeding 130%, are seeing a glimmer of relief. The government plans to release prisoners convi...
- UK plans to release prisoners early to tackle overcrowdingBritain's new government, under the leadership of justice minister Shabana Mahmood, has announced plans to address prison overcrowding by i...
- 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...
- Establishing open prisons can be solution to decongest jails: Supreme CourtThe Supreme Court suggested establishing open jails as a solution to prison overcrowding and prisoner rehabilitation. Open prisons allow co...
- Alabama is building the most expensive prison in US history at a cost of $1 billionAlabama's Elmore County has approved the construction of a $1.08 billion, 4,000-bed prison, making it the most expensive prison in US histo...
- 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...
- Imran Khan, former Pakistan Prime Minister, sent to a distant prison that houses hardened criminals; held in small, dirty cellFormer Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan faces harsh detention conditions after graft conviction.
- 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...
- Never directed states, UTs to compulsorily release all prisoners: SCA bench of Chief Justice S A Bobde and justices L Nageswara Rao and M M Shantanagoudar said its orders have to be followed in letter and sp...
- 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
- 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...
- 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...
- Undertrial prisoners should be released on bail: NHRC Chief Justice KG BalakrishnanBalakrishnan also pointed out that issue of prison reforms & improvement required in criminal justice system is a serious point of concern ...
- Security lapses, mismanagement in Gujarat jails: Comptroller and Auditor GeneralAccording to the CAG report on 'General and Social Sector' for the year ended in March 31, 2013 lapses in security led to excavation of a t...
- Video conference facility at Maharashtra jailsVideo conferencing facility would be installed at jails in Maharashtra to cut expenditure on moving undertrials to courts, home minister RR...
- Indian prisons overcrowded by over one lakhPrisons across the country are bursting at the seams having to lodge about 1.10 lakh convicts and undertrials more than their capacity, wit...
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