Prisons

A prison (also known as a jail or gaol (dated, British and Australian English), penitentiary (American English), detention center (or centre if outside the US), correction center (American English), correctional facility, lock-up or remand center) is a facility in which inmates (or prisoners) are forcibly confined and denied a variety of freedoms under the authority of the state. Prisons are most commonly used within a criminal justice system: people charged with crimes may be imprisoned until their trial; those pleading or being found guilty of crimes at trial may be sentenced to a specified period of imprisonment. In simplest terms, …

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PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 29 July 2024 English

This report is written by Suhas Chakma of Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program (IPLP), University of Arizona. Published in July 2024, the report examines the conflict between tiger conservation …

enforcement personnel.33 They are not prisons but run like prisons. Under Section 4 of the Wildlife (Protection)


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 January 2024 English

Since the year 2020, the five richest men in the world have doubled their fortunes. During the same period, almost five billion people have become poorer. Published by Oxfam International, …

services, from foster to elder care, schooling to prisons, and roads to parking meters. The defunding of


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 March 2023 English

This report was published in March 2023 by Common Cause, New Delhi, and Lokniti, a research programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi. It is …

on government agencies such as the police, prisons, and intelligence agencies as the main actors (1977). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of Prisons. Pp 195-209, Vintage. Fukuyama, F., Richman, B came up with the concept of the panopticon for prisons, an infrastructure designed in such a way that executive authorities, including the police and prisons departments, to collect, analyse and store biometric


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 12 September 2022 English

In 2021, close to 50 million people lived in conditions of modern slavery – 27.6 million in forced labour and 22 million in forced marriages. This report, published in September …

that became what many called their “floating prisons.” The restrictions adopted by many countries to


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 30 March 2022 English

This report was published on March 30, 2022, by Dalit Human Rights Defenders Network, a coalition of Dalit activists from across India, in collaboration with Tata Institute of Social Sciences, …

Justice Report: Ranking states on police, judiciary, prisons and legal aid, January 2021, p. 30. https://www Justice Report: Ranking states on police, judiciary, prisons and legal aid, January 2021, https:// www.tatatrusts


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 17 January 2022 English

The UK-based organisation Oxfam International published this briefing paper concerning the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on January 17, 2022. The paper was written by Nabil Ahmed, Head of …

BUT FROM THE BRUTALITIES OF ABUSERS IN THE PRISONS OF THEIR HOMES.”213 GRAÇA MACHEL INEQUALITY KILLS


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 December 2021 English

India, released this report in December 2021. The report contains data on the administration of prisons and jails in the country for the year 2020. The data was collected between January and July 2021 While these prisons had the capacity for 414,033 prisoners, about 488,500 people were lodged in the prisons by the end of 2020.  The 354-page document is divided into 12 chapters: Prisons – Types and (Chapter 7); Deaths and Illness in Prisons (Chapter 8); Jail breaks, Escapes & Firing in Prisons (Chapter 9); Rehabilitation and Welfare of Prisoners (Chapter 10); Prisons Staff – Strength and Training

vii-viii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ix-xxiv Chapter-1 Prisons – Types and Occupancy 1 – 18 1.1 Types of Jails Deaths and Illness in Prisons 177 – 182 8.1 Deaths of inmates in Prisons 183 8.2 Natural Deaths 190 Chapter-9 Jail Breaks, Escapes & Firing in Prisons 191 – 193 9.1 Details of Escapees 194 9.2 & SHRC and their disposals 244 Chapter-11 Prisons Staff – Strength and Training 245 – 249 11.1 12.9 Details of Electronic Equipments Used in Prisons 283 12.10 Jails Equipped with Video Conferencing


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 28 September 2021 English

Nat dancers move between their village in Chhattisgarh and the protest site at Delhi’s Singhu border, supporting the fight for farmers’ rights even as they themselves struggle to make a …

the police locking us up in jails. Inside the prisons, ours are the bodies, and theirs, the lathis. ”


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 16 August 2021 English

This report was released on August 16, 2021, by Common Cause, which works on governance reforms, and Lokniti, a research programme at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies …

percent personnel oppose the decongestion of prisons to control the spread of Covid-19 30 Figure 2 some of the state governments for decongesting prisons, spike in the arrests of protestors, and action Their views and suggestions on de- congesting prisons for those facing less offensive criminal charges directed states to consider decon- gesting the prisons in view of the Covid-19 outbreak (Busi- ness Today personnel (56%) opposed the idea of decongesting prisons by releas- ing minor offenders or undertrials on


PARI: The CounterMedia Trust · 1 March 2021 English

improve the living and learning conditions of these children, within prisons and in hostels.  It includes a survey conducted in eight prisons across four states of the country - Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh 51 responses from officials at schools, hostels and prisons.  The survey is divided into two categories: ‘Caged Childhood: Children residing in prisons’ (Section 1) and ‘Children residing in Children Homes

1960 provided guidelines for the management of prisons in India and offenders' treatments. In 1980, the situation of women and children happened to be in the prisons. The realisation of changing scenario and the of women under trials were housed in various prisons with their mothers4. If we closely analyse the children of women prisoners were callously placed in prisons in general except in a few central jails for women concerned Director-General/ Inspector General of Prisons in all four states selected during the study (Copy


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