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949 Ludhiana: Four inmates of the Ludhiana Central Jail were booked for possessing eight mobile phones and 23 sachets of tobacco during a surprise checking. The Jail Department has launched a probe to verify connivance of any jail official in the matter. The jail inmates have been identified as Daljit Singh, Gurvinder Singh, Vishal Kumar and Gurvinder Singh. Investigating officer Assistant Jail Superintendent Puneet Garg said suspecting the possession of some banned things, a surprise checking was conducted in the jail during which mobile phones and tobacco sachets were recovered from the fou...

798 Amritsar, February 13 There is no end to incidents of sneaking mobile phones and other prohibited material into the high-security Amritsar Central Jail. Jail authorities on Friday confiscated five mobile phones and 250 habit-forming drugs and booked five prisoners, including two infamous drug peddlers (one of them is a cross-border drug smuggler and the other is former Army man Rahul Nayak of Haryana), in this connection. The seizure alarmed the jail authorities as well as intelligence agencies. Nayak along with two other persons was nabbed for allegedly smuggling drugs and weapons from ...

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 r...

Understanding Open Prisons in India The reformative theory of justice postulates removing the dangerous degeneracy in a criminal and afford them a chance to make a fresh start and lead an honest life. This ensures fundamental human dignity, a most essential constitutional and human right. The current penitentiary structure’s primary focus on punitive and retributive forms of punishment is ill-suited in safeguarding human dignity. The present jail administration in India is archaic, opaque and rife with abuses at systemic level. There is an urgent imperative for various prison reforms.  An...