Management of prisons and pretrial prisoners-dispelling certain myths and some suggestions for reforms
By: Arora, R. C
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BookPublisher: The Indian Police Journal Description: 68(3), Jul-Sep, 2021: p.1-30.Subject(s): Pre-trial, Prisoners, Prison, Prison management, Judicially, Under trial, Court, Condition of prisoners
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The Indian Police JournalSummary: International Centre for Prison Studies London(UK) has shown the total global prison population for 216 countries in its World Prisons Brief-2020, for the year 2019, as about 1,10,00,000(11Million), and India has been shown to have a total of 4,78,600)prisoners[(Pre-Trial/UT 3,30,487 (69.05%)+Convicts 1,44,125(30.11%)+Others like civil and preventive detention prisoners)]. While India is shown at 209thrank out of 223 countries/jurisdictions included in the compiled list, with35 as the Rate of Imprisonment(Prisoners per hundred thousand population). However, India is shown at 14th rank for the proportion of the Pre-Trial prisoners to total, at 69.1%.Similarly, the country is shown at 85th rank for the occupancy of prisons(118.5%) against the official capacity. The dominant section of critics, from our country, NGOs and intellectuals included, and abroad, it has been noticed, have been depicting these aspects very uncharitably and unjustly without analyzing the subjects in all such aspects as are highly germane to proper appreciation of the situation of Indian prisons in comparison with other countries in the world. This article, in an approach hitherto not adopted by the critics for reasons best known to them, illuminates all such areas as shall help the discerning readers of the IPJ and the stakeholders to take a holistic view of the issues involved, before embarking upon an analytical exercise, not based on adequate and cogent facts, and then arriving at misleading and distorted conclusion to the effect that the conditions of Indian prisons, are significantly inconsistent with the human rights of the prisoners. It also highlights the disproportionately higher attention being devoted to the human rights of the accused/criminals at the cost of the rights of the victims of crime in their prolonged quest for justice from the system, and as to how these concerns can be addressed to the legitimate satisfaction of all the stakeholders. – Reproduced
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International Centre for Prison Studies London(UK) has shown the total global prison population for 216 countries in its World Prisons Brief-2020, for the year 2019, as about 1,10,00,000(11Million), and India has been shown to have a total of 4,78,600)prisoners[(Pre-Trial/UT 3,30,487 (69.05%)+Convicts 1,44,125(30.11%)+Others like civil and preventive detention prisoners)]. While India is shown at 209thrank out of 223 countries/jurisdictions included in the compiled list, with35 as the Rate of Imprisonment(Prisoners per hundred thousand population). However, India is shown at 14th rank for the proportion of the Pre-Trial prisoners to total, at 69.1%.Similarly, the country is shown at 85th rank for the occupancy of prisons(118.5%) against the official capacity. The dominant section of critics, from our country, NGOs and intellectuals included, and abroad, it has been noticed, have been depicting these aspects very uncharitably and unjustly without analyzing the subjects in all such aspects as are highly germane to proper appreciation of the situation of Indian prisons in comparison with other countries in the world. This article, in an approach hitherto not adopted by the critics for reasons best known to them, illuminates all such areas as shall help the discerning readers of the IPJ and the stakeholders to take a holistic view of the issues involved, before embarking upon an analytical exercise, not based on adequate and cogent facts, and then arriving at misleading and distorted conclusion to the effect that the conditions of Indian prisons, are significantly inconsistent with the human rights of the prisoners. It also highlights the disproportionately higher attention being devoted to the human rights of the accused/criminals at the cost of the rights of the victims of crime in their prolonged quest for justice from the system, and as to how these concerns can be addressed to the legitimate satisfaction of all the stakeholders. – Reproduced
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