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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.

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rajkumar pandey 11 years 6 months ago

start mandatory morning yog classes in all prisons and see the transformation in the personalities of all prisoners. the more we rely on indian culture the more we will be successful in our endeavours

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Shyamsunder Bissa 11 years 6 months ago

To deal with the menace of overcrowding, better coordination between police, court and prison is required. (a)Speedy trial through video conferencing, (b)decriminalization of some victimless crimes, (c)more & more open prisons, (d)facilitation of use of casual convicts in industries beyond main prison developed as full time PRISONERS' INDUSTRY, (e)full time prisoners' agricultural farms in which most of the prison population is expert; etc. - may be considered. SS Bissa, Retd. IAS & DIG Prisons

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Shyamsunder Bissa 11 years 6 months ago

Prison officials don't deal with dead files only,but with the life of the "offenders", those who are not always "criminals".They must be given parity with other uniform services.They are engaged in more hazardous and exacting tasks for prolonged hours.Mulla Commission specially suggested this parity.Pay parity doesn't only mean monetary remuneration but it also gives them status which is associated with pay scales. All India Correctional Services also required. SS Bissa, Retd. IAS & DIG Prisons.

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Shyamsunder Bissa 11 years 6 months ago

The first step to reform the prison system should be to change the basic philosophy & purpose of imprisonment. Ever since the Prisons Act, 1894, legally the purpose of imprisonment is not incarceration to reform, but merely to detain the prisoner for a particular time (for convicts) or till the trial completes. The PURPOSE of prison should be to develop in the inmates hate for crime and to develop in them an eagerness to become a law-abiding citizen. SS Bissa, Retd. IAS & DIG Prisons.

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Vandana Joshi Kusinen 11 years 6 months ago

This has to be done in macro scale, changing the way people understand crime in India, bring in the education system the meaning of crime, that doesn't only means big crime, even a minor crime is a crime, is punishable, and people who commit crimes are criminals for eg - theft, prostitution, public intoxication, simple assault, disorderly conduct, trespass, vandalism, reckless driving, possession of drugs etc,The citizens of a counrty should be law adibing citizens, and should know there limits.

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Dr Abhiman Singh 11 years 6 months ago

Prison reform is mother of better Law & order situation of of any society.Presently Prisons are breading ground of crime.Most of criminals enjoy all facility ,safety and freedom in jails and even manage their illegal criminal business more safely from jails.Administration of jails should be in hands of paramilitary forces , hard core criminals should be kept in jails of other state.Every prisoner should be engaged in some kind of productive work in the jail itself to reduce burden on exchequer.

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R Kamath 11 years 6 months ago

Sirji, PART 1/6: MAKE USE OF 3 MAGICAL TOOLS – SPIRITUAL MUSIC / BOOKS / SPORTS:- I’m not an expert in this field….yet all I know that, there are THREE MOST POWERFUL TOOLS, DEVOTIONAL MUSIC, SPIRITUAL BOOKS / READING & SPORTS and this 3 TOOLS should invariably figure in the scheme of things, whenever we talk about BRINGING REFORMS IN PRISONS. All these 3 magical tools have great healing power in giving a new meaning to the life of inmates inside prison.

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R Kamath 11 years 6 months ago

PART 2 /6 : LET’S GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO REFORM :- If this is permissible & acceptable as per the law of the land, then, let there be controlled access of all these 3 MAGICAL TOOLS to those who are spending their destined times in prison – so that, they come out of prison totally reformed & dedicated to the values with pure mind, body & soul!

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R Kamath 11 years 6 months ago

PART 3 /6 : LET’S ALSO ENCOURAGE THE CREATIVE TALENT TO COME OUT IN THE OPEN :- Inmates who’re in prison, having talent in handicrafts, painting, or any other form of art, should be allowed with regulation, to pursue their interest, without violation of law of the land. Controlled / regulated engagement of such persons in creative activity, if any, I guess, is in the interest of convicts as well as nation.

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R Kamath 11 years 6 months ago

PART 4 / 6 : LET THIS INCOME EARNED, IF ANY, BE GIVEN TO THE DEPENDENT FAMILY MEMBERS TO SUPPORT THEIR LIVELIHOOD:- The resulting product / artifacts / handicrafts, if any, can be sold through cooperative societies for earning an income to the dependent family members / girl children for education / marriage etc.., as the case may be. Govt. should also help in sourcing the raw material required, if any, for making such handicraft artifact item Let d time to be spent in prison be put to good use

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