Actualité 15 septembre 2016 India : 1,700 died in overcrowded prisons in 2014 ; 89 % of natural causes As many as 1,702 prisoners died in jails nationwide in 2014, according to this reply by the ministry of home affairs to the Lok Sabha (Parliament’s lower house) in August 2016. While 1,507 (89 percent) died of natural causes, 195 (11 percent) died of unnatural causes, such as “suicide, execution, m…
Actualité 8 septembre 2016 India : 41 prisoners from Nashik Jail alone jumped parole in 3 yrs Mumbai: Parole rules in the state were amended last month following the uproar over convict Sajjad Mughal, sentenced to life for murdering lawyer Pallavi Purkayastha, who jumped parole in April. But data shows in the last three years, 41 people convicted for serious crimes jumped parole from Nashik…
Actualité 6 septembre 2016 India : 100 prisoners on hunger strike at Haridwar dist jail Hundred prisoners went on a hunger strike at the district jail here today demanding release of 57 inmates who had already served 14 years of their life imprisonment sentences prompting jail administration to issue notices to them asking to end their stir. The jail superintendent informed the state…