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The legislature and judiciary has mostly overlooked the concerns of prisoners regarding the situations of life in prison throughout our history. There are several international agreements that set...

"It was the right thing to do."

Pregnant Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 11 years in prison. Here's what pregnancy and birth in prison is like.

Arrested under the charges of Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) for his alleged role in the Delhi pogrom of 2020 that took away 53 lives, activist Umar Khalid has been frequently denied bail.

As per the Prison Statistics of India, 2021, while nearly 40 per cent of the prison population has studied below Class 10, 24 per cent have passed Class 10 but are below graduation.

Might socioeconomic and political factors and police prejudice explain the proportion of Muslims being higher in the total number of convicts in India vis-à-vis their population proportion in the country?

New data from the federal government indicates that 40 percent of suspects who appear in criminal court are ...

Nearly 100 convicts, including some who are serving life terms, were roped in for the project.

Shavyonne Vick's case shows how long incarcerations without a conviction, with scant evidence to justify an arrest in the first place, can derail the lives of defendants and their loved ones. It also highlights weaknesses in jails’ care for those incarcerated while pregnant — a pattern across the country.

The ban on Islamist outfit Popular Front of India exposes the perils and fractured narratives the country faces. A cover story by India Today magazine - Issue Date: Oct 10, 2022