Friends,
With this post, we would like to discuss issues with the current state of Jails/Prisons in India.
In India, majority of the people remain in prison pending trial or conviction. Statistics from Human Rights Initiative reveal that over 65% of the prisoners are under-trials and they may continue to be held in overcrowded prisons for years. The occupancy in prisons exceeds by 41.4% over and above its sanctioned capacity. A huge majority of these under-trial prisoners are poor. They are denied bail for want of monetary security. And trials take years. Often, they have no lawyers, live in pathetic conditions, do not have access to adequate medical care, and are likely to be tortured or exploited in many ways.
With this post, you may share every issue that you are familiar with including prison oversight, management etc as well as systemic issues that exist.
We will review the root causes and solutions separately to put together a whitepaper that can be shared with the key stakeholders for actions.
We look forward to your inputs!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
The fundamental principle of Jurisprudence may be '100 culprits may let go free but no innocent should be punished'. Contradictory to this, many of the prisoners (40-60%) left behind bars may not be the real culprits. Heaping up pendency also a brewing concern.
1. Massive program to dispose pending cases using lawyers, legal students, private firms as an immediate priority
2. Setting up of Mediation centres on Panchaytah Basis
3. Set - up industrial parks in jails and utilize the potential of prisoners/labours
4. Make disposing cases as a right service eg. say dispose case in 6 months
5. Last, but note the least - always go for explore the roots - criminal are being created because of poverty, suppression, torture, bad childhood experience. Find the causes and treat this syndrome to improve quality of life of people.
With this post, we would like to discuss issues with the current state of Jails/Prisons in India.
In India, majority of the people remain in prison pending trial or conviction. Statistics from Human Rights Initiative reveal that over 65% of the prisoners are under-trials and they may continue to be held in overcrowded prisons for years. The occupancy in prisons exceeds by 41.4% over and above its sanctioned capacity. A huge majority of these under-trial prisoners are poor. They are denied bail for want of monetary security. And trials take years. Often, they have no lawyers, live in pathetic conditions, do not have access to adequate medical care, and are likely to be tortured or exploited in many ways.
With this post, you may share every issue that you are familiar with including prison oversight, management etc as well as systemic issues that exist.
We will review the root causes and solutions separately to put together a whitepaper that can be shared with the key stakeholders for actions.
We look forward to your inputs!
Rajendra Pratap Gupta
The fundamental principle of Jurisprudence may be '100 culprits may let go free but no innocent should be punished'. Contradictory to this, many of the prisoners (40-60%) left behind bars may not be the real culprits. Heaping up pendency also a brewing concern.
1. Massive program to dispose pending cases using lawyers, legal students, private firms as an immediate priority
2. Setting up of Mediation centres on Panchaytah Basis
3. Set - up industrial parks in jails and utilize the potential of prisoners/labours
4. Make disposing cases as a right service eg. say dispose case in 6 months
5. Last, but note the least - always go for explore the roots - criminal are being created because of poverty, suppression, torture, bad childhood experience. Find the causes and treat this syndrome to improve quality of life of people.
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