PRISON REFORMS

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→ President Murmu raised concerns imprisonment does not spell farewell
Fundamental
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over prisoners rights to rights -

Sc

→ Sc directions to state jail authorities

CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

Enforcement
Adjudication
correction

LAWS
→ state list - Prison manuals
→
Prison Act 1894

ISSUES

INFRASTRUCTURE HUMAN RIGHTS

→ Overcrowding → custodial deaths

under torture 9 abuse
→ staffing →

→
inadequate security →
mental health

→ social identity

LEGAL SYSTEMIC ISSUES

→
under trails →
lack of reformative approach
→
lack of legal aid → corruption

SC JUDGEMENT

through multiple judgements sc upheld

3 broad principles
regarding imprisonment a custody
1) a
person in prison does not become a non
person
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2) he is entitled to all HRs with in the limitations of imprisonment

3) no justification for aggravating the sufferings already inherent in incarceration

INITIATIVES
LAW

→ Criminal Procedure lidiutification Alt 2022

→ Section 436 A WPC

JUDICIAL
→ FASTER scheme
→ e- courts
→ NLSA
EXECUTIVE

→
e prisons project
→
Prison modernisation

SUGGESTIONS
D Mulla committee
→ Setup National Prison COMMISSION
→ under trails should be kept separate
from the convicted persons

2) J Amita Va
.

Roy committee
→
1 lawyer for 30 prisoners for speedy trail
video for
→
conferencing trail

UN STD
→ Mandela rules

VIEWS
instead of building jails govt and
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more ,

the judiciary should work together to

tackle problems like pre trail detentions '

and over representation of marginalised people

President Draupadi Murmu