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Prison Reforms

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.

We would like to invite your feedback/suggestions and comments on the above issues.

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Vipul Agarwal
Vipul Agarwal 11 years 6 months ago
In India two kind of manpower energy should be channeled productively to best utilization like in China. First is people in prison and second is women such as housewives. Both these have been utilized to maximum in China to attain higher GDP growth.
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Dr Ashok Malhotra
Dr Ashok Malhotra 11 years 6 months ago
In India in particular where court proceedings are slow, there is a need to enforce an automatic bail after a certain number of years for under-trials that have not been convicted. The Supreme Court of India has expressed this sentence and there is a need to enshrine this in law rigorously. On the other hand greater strictness is required for repeat offenders. Sadly the reverse is happening in many cases in India where repeat offenders are getting out repeatedly and innocents continuing in Jail.
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Dr Ashok Malhotra
Dr Ashok Malhotra 11 years 6 months ago
Any country that is considering improving its prison system must also consider reducing the prison population. They can learn from Sweden that has made revolutionary advances in this direction. It may be noted that a great number of offences can be dealt with by fines for those who can afford that and by service assignments for those who cannot. These bring revenue for the public while for keeping someone in prison the public has to pay.
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Arun kumar CHARANPAHARI
Arun kumar CHARANPAHARI 11 years 6 months ago
Govt. should adopt a principal where only hard core criminals, rapist etc.,whose presence in the society is dangerous are to be kept in prisons. Economic & other offenders should be treated differently.
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Arun kumar CHARANPAHARI
Arun kumar CHARANPAHARI 11 years 6 months ago
Reduce congestion in prisons by: Automatic grant of bail for undertrial after completing 25% of minimum punishment . Undertrial prisoners for murder, dakoity and other serious offence likely to be convicted for life term should be shifted to central prison of state. Untertrial prisoners with maximum sentence of 1 year prison to be automatically granted bail. Economically weaker section undertrial prisoners who can not arrange bailor should be rehabilitated by Govt. nominated NGOs.
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Alok Gupta
Alok Gupta 11 years 6 months ago
De-stress judiciary and police/prisons by employing more personnel/judges. This shall reduce the number of convicts. Have more humane laws and reduce the prison terms. The prisoners are our own unfortunate brothers. Put prisons under PPP model so that the prison infrastructure could be improved and prisons become self-sustaining.
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Babu N
Babu N 11 years 6 months ago
Prisoners should be categorised and put in different prisons, with aim of councelling and changing them to good person who have minor offences. Repeated offenders should be treated tougher for each repetation. More than 3 repetation can be treated as criminal and served longer & tougher. Excersise, Yoga & Meditation to be made compulsary.
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Vijayasarathy v
Vijayasarathy v 11 years 6 months ago
All terrorists should be hanged or shot dead instead of giving them life sentences . This will save the government huge amount which could be used to rehabilitate the prisoners . People who commit tax crimes should be deprived of all their properties leaving them with money only enough to survive the rest of their lives. These are the sources of income I could suggest to rehabilitate prisoners
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sanjai kumar rai
sanjai kumar rai 11 years 6 months ago
कुछ विभागों जैसे रेलवे आदि जिनके पास समुचित साधन हैं उनको अपने कारगार विकसित करने दिया जय एवं कम सजा वाले विचाराधीन एवं उस विभाग से संबन्धित कैदी वहाँ रखे जा सके । इन कैदियों से श्रम भी कराया जा सकेगा एवं सुधार के प्रयास भी हो सकेंगे । इस प्रकार से परंपरागत कारागारों पर दबाव कम होगा ।
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