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According to the president, 230 young people will be released before December 24. The controversial announcement has once again brought to light the problem of overcrowding in the country's prisons.
The president said that instead of building more jails, governments and the judiciary should work together to tackle problems like pretrial detentions and the overrepresentation of marginalised communities.
LINCOLN — Scott Frakes arrived from Washington State in 2015 with a mandate to turn around a troubled state prison system in Nebraska, which suffered from overcrowding, staff shortages and
On July 16, CJI N.V. Ramana said there are 6.1 lakh people jailed in the country’s 1,378 prisons. In a matter of a day, the number had risen to 6.22 lakh prisoners.
An official says at least eight inmates have died at an overcrowded prison in Haiti that ran out of food two months ago