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16 May 2025
Death in custody that questions the functioning of...
Prisoner struggling to be alive, her husband kept in the dark about her health condition, and an unconsented surgery expose the dark reality of India's criminal justice system
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Open prisons in Rajasthan: Policy and experience
Life convicts who have completed one-third of their sentences and have shown good conduct are shifted to open jails in Rajasthan, a move that helps them socialise and earn money through work
Amarpal Singh Verma
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Stories, sketches and colour zones: Ex-prisoners d...
Second Chance Fellowship and U-Turn Programme sensitise inmates on the need to support each other emotionally, while also assessing their own mental state
Puja Bhattacharjee
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‘I asked why my sister was being taken into custod...
In the late hours, cops swooped on the house where Roboni’s family lived and took her sister Sambika into illegal detention — an act that culminated in NHRC ordering Rs 1.5 lakh as compensation
Nisha Kumari
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Forget reforms, children are fleeing juvenile home...
Lack of a positive environment and the influence of gangs from outside push juvenile delinquents to escape from correctional homes
Amarpal Singh Verma
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Playful childhood lost within the prison walls
Children are allowed to stay with their mothers in jail till they attain the age of six, but their days are far from what an ideal carefree childhood would look like
Amarpal Singh Verma
20 February 2026
Picked up at night, held without arrest
Kapil Dev Rajak, his wife and their two children were picked up from their home late at night and held at a police station without arrest, lawyers said, in violation of arrest procedures and constitutional safeguards.