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Prison Reforms

Start Date :

Jan 01, 2015

Last Date :

Jul 17, 2015

04:15 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)

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Prisons today are beset with issue like: ...

Prisons today are beset with issue like:

1. Overcrowding
2. Challenge of providing adequate mental health care to inmates
3. Continuity of care for children of women inmates after 6 years of age
4. Market relevant schemes for rehabilitation of inmates
5. Marketing of jail-products, welfare schemes for the prison staff
6. The question of party with other uniformed services
7. Modernizing the design, architecture of new model prisons
8. Training and welfare schemes for women inmates
9. Social issues regarding their acceptance after release
10. Adoption of model prison manual by all States/UTs for uniformity in prison administration.

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Rajender Parshad Arora 10 years 11 months ago

NCRB data tells us that as at the end of 2011, 243650 people (65.4 % of prison population) were in jail (9101 of them for more than 3 years) not because their guilt was established (those convicted by courts are readily let off on bail and are worshiped by MPs & MLAs) but because they were not given bail nor hearing was completed in their cases by the courts. The law feared they would intimidate witnesses and had no time to record evidence. Are human rights only for terrorists and politicians?

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Jay Chan 10 years 11 months ago

Just see how and what manner buddha made realization possible for Criminal Angulimala. Criminal has been once a innocent child. But world with its evil changed them in to criminals. Buddha acertains in his teachings that our eyes,nose,mouth,ears,body,mind all belong to Mara,the evil one who misleads people into delusion, misusing them and indulging in to activities that harm spiritual progress. The spiritual path must be shown to prisoners to revive spirituality inside them.

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Vydianathan Muralikrishnan 10 years 11 months ago

Sir, Mandatory Social service is to be implemented

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Rajender Parshad Arora 10 years 11 months ago

Recently, in Sanjay Chandra vs Cbi the Apex Court said on 23 November, 2011, "This Court, time and again, has stated that bail is the rule and committal to jail an exception. It is also observed that refusal of bail is a restriction on the personal liberty of the individual guaranteed under Article 21 of the Constitution." This rule must be codified into the law in an exhaustive manner. this will protect individual liberty and drastically reduce prison population thereby improving conditions

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Rajender Parshad Arora 10 years 11 months ago

By not following the rule bail, not jail, lakhs of Citizens who are presumably innocent, are kept in overcrowded jails. this is a mockery of justice. who will be in jail and who free is not decided by evidence and the law. it is decided by the police and whims of the judges. clear and exhaustive rules must be codified making it impossible to deprive a citizen of liberty except for constitutionally sanctioned purpose of making him face trial and preventing interference with course of justice.

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Rajender Parshad Arora 10 years 11 months ago

Supreme Court (Justice Krishna Iyer) said in State Of Rajasthan vs Balchand 1977 AIR 2447, "The basic rule is bail, not jail, except-where there are circumstances suggestive of fleeing from justice or thwarting the course of justice or creating other troubles in the shape of repeating offences or intimidating witnesses and the like by the petitioner who seeks enlargement on bail from the court." but the lower judiciary and the high courts don't follow the rule.

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Rajender Parshad Arora 10 years 11 months ago

In Germany undertrials are 18.6% of prison population; in India the figure is 67.6%. 24352 persons, or 3% of all those judged in court were previously in remand custody; for females, the figure is only 1.1%. In India innocent men spend years in jail. The reason is that in Germany, remand can only be ordered by a judge where the accused is strongly suspected of having committed the crime and there are grounds for remand custody, such as risk of flight or the risk of evidence being tampered with.

CriminalJusticeInGermanyNumbersAndFacts.pdf

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SHASHANKA RAYADURGA HULIRAJ 10 years 11 months ago

Reduce the number of prisoners in prisons. We could introduce the concept of community work for small punishments (public service, traffic management, laying roads, etc.). Why use up resources to look after people in prison when they are not a threat to the society.

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Rajender Parshad Arora 10 years 11 months ago

The British are worried that it takes on average 154 days (or just over 5 months) from an offence to sentence in their Criminal Justice System and have initiated a series of reforms. and we are using the same system as theirs!!!

SwiftAndSureJustice.pdf

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Rajender Parshad Arora 10 years 11 months ago

Two thirds of those imprisoned are undertrials. Implement in letter and spirit the legal dictum 'bail is rule; jail is exception'. Insert this into law. special courts in jail for petty offences and alternative punishments like fines, compensation to victim, confiscation of property and community service can reduce the population in overcrowded jails. see comprehensive study at http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org/artres/Access%20to%20Justice%20for%20Undetrial%20Prisoners.pdf

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