Updated: Efforts to decongest prions during pandemic should be continued, says report Share Article AAA A closer look at the prison-wise occupancy showed that 27% of the prisons in 19 States/UTs continued to be overcrowded. File Photo.
Efforts to decongest prions during pandemic should be continued, says report A report released on Saturday by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) said the population in Indian prisons reduced by 10.42% from April to June due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The report urged the State governments and prison authorities to continue the measures to decongest prisons. The report, titled ‘Responding to the Pandemic: Prisons and Overcrowding’, said that after high-powered committees were formed on orders of the Supreme Court to reduce overcrowding, the occupancy in prisons of 22 States and Union Territories reduced from 107.8% on December 31, 2019 to 103.1% on April 1, 2020 and then to 93.3% on June 30.