Driven by a shortage of prosecutors, judges and courts and—among other reasons—slow procedures, there are more people under trial in India than there are people in the Netherlands or Kazakhstan. Posted by IndiaSpend | May 7, 2015 in Data Journalism For the 13… Continue Reading →
Death of mentally ill detainees ‘avoidable’ – human rights experts Published time: February 23, 2015 13:09 (Reuters / Paul Hackett) Tags Crisis, Europe, Health, Human rights, Politics, UK Over 600 deaths in psychiatric wards, prisons and police cells were preventable and were caused by repeated… Continue Reading →
SIBI ARASU THE HINDUThe Supreme Court order has brought ray of hope for the undertrials who are languishing in jails for years. Prashant NakweThe waiting game: Over 20 per cent of undertrials in India are jailed from a year to… Continue Reading →
HARSH MANDER Special Arrangement Colours of the Cage: A Prison Memoir; Arun Ferreira, Aleph Book Company, Rs.295. A searing account of nearly five years in prison, Colours of the Cage is both a stirring memoir of extraordinary human resilience and… Continue Reading →
Press Trust of India | Raipur February 19, 2014 Last Updated at 20:17 IST T here more than 14,000 inmates have been lodged in various prisons, theState Assembly was informed today. As against the capacity of 5,302, there are 14,062 inmates in various… Continue Reading →
By Bobby Constantino Left to right: A snapshot of the author’s graffiti; a “selfie” of the author, dressed in his suit and tie and ready to vandalize; a surveillance video still of the work in progress (Bobby Constantino) Ten years ago,… Continue Reading →
Sweden’s prison population has dropped so dramatically that the country plans to close four of its prisons. What lessons can the UK learn? Erwin James Sunday 1 December 2013 The Guardian —- Swedish prisons have long had a… Continue Reading →
Anahita Mukherji, TNN | Oct 17, 2013, Pic- courtesy Shikha Rahi Rahi has been arrested on grounds of being a Naxal courier, he rubbished the claim. NAGPUR: Two years ago, at a sparsely-furnished flat in suburban Mumbai, Prashant Rahi, a… Continue Reading →
Posted on Jul 28, 2013 Illustration by Mr. Fish By Chris Hedges Debbie Bourne, 45, was at her apartment in the Liberty Village housing projects in Plainfield, N.J., on the afternoon of April 30 when police banged on the door and pushed their… Continue Reading →
Pranjal Baruah, TNN | Jun 15, 2013, Surprisingly, the NCRB did not record a single case of police custodial death in Assam in 2011. GUWAHATI: In a major embarrassment for the state, the National Crime Records Bureau(NCRB) figures for last year… Continue Reading →
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