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When 'Bandi' Is Both a Game and Life: The Children of India's Women Prisoners

While growing up inside a prison leads to a range of difficulties for children, those separated from their mothers and left on the outside too face different traumas.

Bhiwandi , Maharashtra , India , Mumbai , Aurangabad , Odisha , Orissa , Akola , Byculla , Gondia , State-of-andhra-pradesh , Andhra-pradesh

The Wire Impact: After 70 Years, Rajasthan Amends Prison Manual That Sanctioned Caste-Based Labour

The Wire Impact: After 70 Years, Rajasthan Amends Prison Manual That Sanctioned Caste-Based Labour
The move comes nearly two months after The Wireâs report had exposed conditions of institutionalised casteism in prisons of Rajasthan and several other states in India.
Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty
Rights13/Feb/2021
Mumbai: For over 70- years, the Rajasthan state had followed an unconstitutional and violative prison manual that allowed assignment of labour on the basis of a prisonerâs caste. This institutionalised caste practice had continued unchallenged until
The Wireâs report exposed the conditions in prisons of Rajasthan and several other states in India.
suo motu demand an overhaul of the prison manual. And on February 2, the stateâs home department was compelled to repeal all those prison rules which allowed caste-based labour assignments in prison.

Tirunelveli , Tamil-nadu , India , Madhya-pradesh , Mumbai , Maharashtra , Odisha , Orissa , Palayamkottai , Delhi , Uttar-pradesh , Bihar