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NHRC's Advisory to Tackle an Alarming Rise in Prison Deaths Ignores Ground Realities

The rights body has called for screening for mental illnesses upon entry into prison, filling of staff vacancies and more. However, root problems of social hierarchy and extreme overcrowding are ignored.

India , Bihar , Mumbai , Maharashtra , Uttar-pradesh , National-prisons-information , National-crime-record-bureau , Supreme-court , National-human-rights-commission , Puzhal-central , Criminal-procedure

Court Issues Notice in Surendra Gadling's Contempt Plea Against Prison Officials

The human rights lawyer, an accused in the Elgar Parishad case, claims that despite favourable court orders, the prison officials have blocked his access to hospitals, worsening his health condition further.

Delhi , India , Mumbai , Maharashtra , Bombay , Elgar-parishad , Vara-rao , Gautam-navlakha , Jenny-rowena , Stan-swamy , Hany-babu , Supreme-court

Activist Hidme Markam Walks Out of Jail As Police Fail to Prove Alleged Terror Cases

Markam, a well-known forest rights and prisoners’ rights activist, was accused by the police and the NIA of involvement in Naxal activities and arrested on March 9, 2021. She was acquitted in four cases and granted bail in the last one.

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Families Protest After 3 Undertrial Prisoners of Yerwada Die on Same Day

Their families have contested police's claim that the deaths were natural and have asked for a detailed inquiry into the causes of their respective deaths. 

India , Hindustan , India-general- , New-delhi , Delhi , Elgar-parishad , Shahrukh-sheikh , Ashok-kate , Sandesh-gondekar , National-crime-records-bureau , Yerwada-central-jail , Sassoon-general-hospital

Elgar Parishad Case: Vernon Gonsalves Is Latest Victim of Prison Staff's Medical Neglect

JJ Hospital has confirmed that Gonsalves has been suffering from dengue for close to two weeks and that he could have developed pneumonia too.

Mumbai , Maharashtra , India , Bombay , Pune , Larsen-furtado , Rajiv-gandhi , Elgar-parishad , Susan-abraham , Vernon-gonsalves , Varavara-rao , Sudhir-dhawale

Karnataka HC: Police Can't Handcuff Accused Without Recording a Reason

The court's order also said that the police must seek prior permission of the court to produce an undertrial in handcuffs, failing which the officers who did so will be liable to face action.

Dharwad , Karnataka , India , Delhi , Calcutta , West-bengal , New-delhi , Karnataka-belgaum , Justice-suraj-govindaraj , Umar-khalid , Justice-govindaraj , Suprit-ishwar-divate

Watch | 'The Punished' Brings Stories of Death Row Prisoners to a Wider Audience


Watch | 'The Punished' Brings Stories of Death Row Prisoners to a Wider Audience
Anup Surendranath, director of Project 39A, and Jahnavi Misra, author of 'The Punished', speak to Nisha Susan.
The
Punished, on why they decided to transform the research centre’s report into a book of vignettes, focusing on the lives of death row prisoners.
In this conversation on
The Wire, the panellists discuss the book, the decision to stay away from sensationalised writing, separating the crime from the criminal, and more.

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'Only Seen in Fiction': Delhi HC Slams Tihar Authorities Over Handling of Undertrial's Murder


'Only Seen in Fiction': Delhi HC Slams Tihar Authorities Over Handling of Undertrial's Murder
In November 2020, Dilsher Azad's father received a call that his son was dead. He had grievous knife wounds on his body, but Tihar Jail authorities did not disclose how he died.
Representative image. Photo: Reuters
Rights24/Feb/2021
New Delhi: The Delhi High Court on Wednesday expressed shock at the murder of a Tihar Jail undertrial who was knifed to death inside the prison, saying that such things are only seen in fiction.
“I don’t know how something like this can happen. It is shocking. We see such things only in fiction,” Justice Prathiba M. Singh said while hearing a plea moved by the victim’s father seeking Rs 5 crore as compensation for the custodial death of his son.

Tihar , Uttar-pradesh , India , Delhi , New-delhi , Justice-prathibam-singh , Vishal-raj-sehijpal , Justice-singh , Anwara-khan , Dilsher-azad , Alisher , Sanjoy-ghose

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 Wire’s 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 prisoner’s caste. This institutionalised caste practice had continued unchallenged until
The Wire’s 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 state’s home department was compelled to repeal all those prison rules which allowed caste-based labour assignments in prison.

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