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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.

We would like to invite your feedback/suggestions and comments on the above issues.

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Bharat Sanyal 11 years 2 weeks ago

Determine the nature of crime and segregate prisoners in categories based on crime violence and criminal's psychological profile. Design curriculum based on psychological profile. For crimes of passion involve meditation/yoga, crimes of lack of opportunity (money grab) offer skills training that will help in getting good employment.

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Kartik Thaore 11 years 3 weeks ago

IMHO a person guilty of crime can only overcome and win over his guilt by hard work and content, not forcibly sitting passive behind bars. Prisoners of India can be the essential required laborers for the country with close scrutiny and subtle technology aid. Chart out annual calender for prisoners packed with relevant training, hard labour sessions and social service. If prisoners outperform, reduce imprisonment term, give wages after term completion or even enroll for jobs.

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Venkata Subba Rao Punnavajhala 11 years 4 weeks ago

Prison populations the world around including in India have a very high rate of drug addiction. This is a vicious cycle in which to sustain his habit, the addict commits crimes, goes to prison and the drugs are smuggled into the prison to sustain their habit and when released, they continue with drug abuse as well as drug driven crime. Compulsory testing of every person entering the prison as an undertrial for drug addiction followed by compulsory de-addiction of addicts will break the cycle.

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Venkata Subba Rao Punnavajhala 11 years 4 weeks ago

Overcrowding by under trials unable to secure bail is the single biggest problem of our prison system. Undertrials are essentially, prisoners of judicial delays, inefficiency and procrastination. If the Cr.P.C. is slightly modified mandating the jailor to release an undertrial prisoner unless his remand is specifically renewed by the judge for a specific period not exceeding 3 months at a time will force the judge to review every case and set them free. P V Subba Rao

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Sri Tapan Maity 11 years 1 month ago

Om Every Under-trial-prisoner should be interviewed and probed in such a manner that his/her short biographical sketch may be prepared which can be produced before the trial court at the stage of examination of the accused u/s 313 Cr.P.C for proper evaluation of the magnitude of the crime committed by the UTP.The extenuating factors and those leading to building up of adverse character should be made relevant and considered in favor of the accused!

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Akshat Tripathi 11 years 1 month ago

We can learn a metric ton of things on prison reformation from Switzerland, Norway and other European countries where the prisoners are checked after their sentence whether they are okay to get back to the society. If they fail the test, they have to serve the same sentence once again; if they do pass the test, then they are released. It is a very humane and a responsible way of treating prisoners. What these countries have realized is that prisoners are humans as well.

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manish dedhia 11 years 1 month ago

There are 3 technique to reduce load on present prison system. 1) probation- People with 1st offense should be put on probation. 2) community Service- people committing Petty Crimes Can be forced to do community service like using them in swachh bharat abhiyan. 3) House Arrest- Underage offender should be confine to house arrest rather than putting them in prison system where they are abused.

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Abhishek Sinha_3 11 years 1 month ago

Hello My dear friends. Here is my view on prison reform. Prison reform should be viewed in two forms Infrastructure of the prison-> Most of us spoke Creating healthy and friendly environment for the prisoners-> Yoga, pranayam, and some meditation should be started inside prison in other words spiritual practices which is different from religion. Spirituality creates sense of belongingness towards others and it should be started for both prisoners as well as all staff members of prison.

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Madhumilind Kamthe 11 years 1 month ago

There are many under trials who have spend more time in jail /police station as compared to sentence in which they are charged , Proper amendment in Cr. P. C. should be done and amnesty scheme should be given and they should be released. Human right commission should be involved in searching such person who are very poor and have crossed the time of imprisonment

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Killol Shah 11 years 1 month ago

In my earlier post, which can be viewed below, I had mentioned how Govt should utilize prisons to manufacture materials & articles that the Govt itself needs, thereby utilizing prisoners & cutting costs. Recently, I came across an article which read that 100% of Helmets required by US Govt defence forces are manufactured in their prisons. Kindly research this avenue & use prisons asap. Thanks

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