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The bench led by Justice Mangesh Patil held that the Inspector General of Prisons exercised his discretionary powers appropriately by denying benefit of transferring the convict to an Open Prison.

EXCLUSIVE: 728 prisoners housed in the UK open prison system are on the sex offender register for crimes including rape and murder and in the past year alone two have absconded.

The Supreme Court has directed the petitioner to make a detailed representation to the concerned States with his suggestions on uniform procedure or policy for open prisons or semi-open prisons.

TDT | Manama The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com Bahrain prioritises...

TDT | Manama The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com The Bahrain Cabinet...

The Danish government will rent prison cells in Kosovo to house 300 inmates in a bid to reduce overcrowding. The measure will be limited to prisoners who were already set to be deported out of Denmark.

Understanding Open Prisons in India The reformative theory of justice postulates removing the dangerous degeneracy in a criminal and afford them a chance to make a fresh start and lead an honest life. This ensures fundamental human dignity, a most essential constitutional and human right. The current penitentiary structure’s primary focus on punitive and retributive forms of punishment is ill-suited in safeguarding human dignity. The present jail administration in India is archaic, opaque an...