Poor Prisoner News Today

The Union home ministry has framed guidelines to decongest prisons and has asked states and Union Territories to release economically weaker prisoners who are in jails due to non-payment of fine or unable to secure bail due to financial constraints.

NEW DELHI, Apr 7: The Centre on Friday said that it has decided to launch a special scheme ‘Support for Poor Prisoners’ to provide financial support to poor people languishing in jails and are unable to afford the penalty or the bail amount. “It envisages provision of required financial support to poor persons who are

The scheme envisages the provision of required financial support to poor persons who are in prisons and unable to afford the penalty or the bail amount.