Prison conditions
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Despite campaign, India saw number of prisoners increase in 2022
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Women prisoners’ access to basic facilities worse than men, says SC panel
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SC directs convicts, undertrials released during Covid-19 pandemic to surrender in 15 days
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SC issues guidelines to ensure prisoners are not held up despite getting bail
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Eight out of ten Indian prisoners were awaiting trial in 2021, report shows
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Punished without trial: How India’s political prisoners are being denied basic rights in jail
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Number of prisoners in India increased by 1.5% in 2020 – the first year of pandemic, shows report
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5,221 persons died in judicial custody in past three years, says Centre
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For much of the pandemic, Pakistan has neglected the safety of inmates in its overcrowded jails
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Children of women prisoners in India struggle to get proper food and education despite guidelines
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Seven in 10 Indian prisoners are awaiting trial – one in three jail inmates is Dalit or Adivasi
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Activist flags poor state of interim Maharashtra jail, officials say no plans to move inmates yet
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Sasikala didn’t violate prison rules, claims of special treatment are wrong, says her lawyer
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Panel investigating Sasikala’s prison facilities finds drug abuse, mobile phone use high there
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Unsafe sex and drug use in India’s prisons is leading to high HIV rates
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Supreme Court asks states to take measures to reduce unnatural deaths in prisons
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Indrani Mukerjea has put this Mumbai jail in the news but its problems are well-known to the court
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Death behind bars: 1,700 died in overcrowded Indian prisons in 2014
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Terror suspect Abu Jundal's hunger strike throws light on inhuman conditions in Mumbai jail
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Kobad Ghandy, jailed for being a Maoist, goes on hunger strike to protest harassment by authorities