Data: The number of undertrial prisoners crosses 4 lakhs while their share among inmates touches 77%
The Prison Statistics India (PSI) report for 2021 was released recently. As per data provided…
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Data: Share of Undertrials in Indian prisons crossed 75% by the end of 2020
Data from the NCRB ‘Prison Statistics India-2020’ indicates that the number of undertrials in Indian…
Data: Prisons in India continue to be Overcrowded despite COVID-19
Multiple institutions including the Supreme Court, NHRC, the UN had called for decongestion of prisons,…
Overcrowding & Staff vacancies plague Indian Prisons
The India Justice Report 2020 highlights the multiple issues plaguing the prison system in India.…
Data indicates the relation between High Pendency in courts & Overcrowding in Prisons
Overcrowding in prisons is a problem for many reasons. Far from acting as a rehabilitation…
Data: Occupancy ratio in Indian Prisons was at a 10-year high by the end of 2019
World over, prisons have turned out to be hotspots of COVID infection & spread because…
More than 50% of the Convicts in Prisons by the end of 2017 were serving Life Imprisonment
By the end of 2017, there were a total of 1.39 lakh convicts serving their…
More than 70% of the under-trial prisoners are either illiterate or have studied only up to Class X
The NCRB’s 2017 report on prison statistics reveals that the proportion of under-trials in Indian…
In 2017, most Prisoners escaped from Gujarat while most Jailbreaks took place in West Bengal
The Prison Statistics report of the NCRB provides data on various facets of the prison…
The Southern states account for 58% of the value of goods produced by prison inmates in 2017, lead the way in reformation
Reformation of inmates is one of the primary goals of prisons. The NCRB 2017 report…
