March 31, 2017 India: inmates in Bagalkot prison go on hunger strike, demand better quality food News Asia Protest India The prisoners complained of bad food quality.
March 21, 2017 Inde : comment sortir d’une prison quand on est innocent ? News Asia India This article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
January 2, 2017 India: video evidence of corruption in various jails in Maharashtra News Asia India The Anti-Corruption Bureau is in possession of video evidence of corruption in various jails in Maharashtra. The clips were submitted by a person who was not allowed to meet his relative lodged in Thane Jail until he paid a bribe to the jail staffers. Taken aback by the demand for the bribe, scienc…
November 3, 2016 Inde : une évasion digne d’un mauvais scénario de film News Asia Protest India Sorry, this article is not available in English. If you wish, you can consult the French version.
October 31, 2016 India: Indian police kill 8 militants who fled from prison News Asia India Indian police Monday gunned down eight suspected militants of the banned group Students’ Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) in an encounter, hours after they escaped from a high-security prison in the central state of Madhya Pradesh’s capital Bhopal.
October 17, 2016 India : undertrial prisoners in India equals population of Barbados News Asia Justice India An IndiaSpend analysis of available data reveals the extent of the problem: Between 2010 and 2014, 25 per cent undertrials had been jailed for more than one year. The percentage of undertrials to total prisoners has remained over 65 per cent during this period. In 2014, seven in 10 prisoners were u…
September 15, 2016 India : 1,700 died in overcrowded prisons in 2014 ; 89 % of natural causes News Asia Overcrowding India 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…
September 8, 2016 India : 41 prisoners from Nashik Jail alone jumped parole in 3 yrs News Asia India 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…
September 6, 2016 India : 100 prisoners on hunger strike at Haridwar dist jail News Asia Protest India 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…
