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India – Undertrials exceed dutch population #WTFnews #Prisons

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 →

Why is Sweden closing its #Prisons ? #humanrights

  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 →

America’s Business of Mass Incarceration #prisons

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 →

India – Ignoring Custodial Deaths #Prisons

Vol – XLVIII No. 19, May 11, 2013 | Rebecca Gonsalvez and Vijay Hiremath EPW There is justifiable anguish over the killing of Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani jail but what about the thousands of deaths in police and judicial custody in India? Torture… Continue Reading →

Jailed Iranian Women Stop Hunger Strike #prisons #Vaw

Jailed lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh (in an undated photo) began her hunger strike on October 31. TEXT SIZE By RFE/RL’s Radio Farda November 06, 2012 Sources in Tehran say that eight female inmates in Evin prisonhave stopped their hunger strike and… Continue Reading →

#India -10,646 Indians jailed abroad and forgotten #prisons

Published: Sunday, Oct 28, 2012, 8:15 IST DNA Special By Yogesh Pawar | Place: Mumbai | Agency: DNA Indian techie Bhavesh Parmar’s return has highlighted the plight of Indian prisoners in Pakistan. But there are also 10,646 other Indians who’ve shared a… Continue Reading →

Bombay High Court- Liability of employee is on principal employer #Goodnews

by indialatest A ruling by Bombay High Court that should interest labor activists and leftists in general. The court recently ruled that in case an employee faces an accident, it will be the liability of the principal employer, and not the contract… Continue Reading →

#India – Custodial Torture – Tailor, Farmer, Bootlegger, and many young men #mustread

The Hell Of Living Souls A tailor. A farmer. A bootlegger. Often just young men going about their day. brutally tortured, then acquitted. G Vishnu captures the impunity with which this happens. And why society needs to react G VISHNU , Tehelka… Continue Reading →

Need to rethink death penalty, says Shinde

Express news service : Mumbai, Mon Nov 26 2012, 01:34 hrs Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said on Sunday that the government needs to “rethink” its policy on capital punishment. Speaking at the Idea Exchange programme organised by Loksatta, the… Continue Reading →

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