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India's #prisons operate at 31% above capacity, housing 573,220 inmates as of 2022. States like UP, Uttarakhand and Delhi have over 85% #overcrowding .

Inmate population has nearly doubled since 2012.

The increasing #prison_population has severe implications on the inmates as

Sheela Barse: A life to be celebrated

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maja daruwala and Dr Vijay Raghavan pay tribute. “This was the time when the Supreme Court took up matters of little Indians filed by any person who had no individual interest in the matter, entertaining a slew of

Prof Vijay Raghavan: similarly there’s no single place or report which will give you the details on honorariums for legal aid lawyers across different states

Prof Vijay Raghavan : for example we need to collect data on children left outside because their parents are in jail

Prof Vijay Raghavan, TISS-PRAYAS: “We need hard data to push for reforms but unfortunately agencies working with data on the criminal justice system are headed by generalists not specialists. Therefore the data available currently is lacking in several respects. ”

N S Megharikh, former DG Prisons, Karnataka says: we must take care of basic needs like food, clothing, and human rights of all prisoners.

Ms Borwankar, Former DG Prisons, Maharashtra: we have to identify solutions while identifying problems. For instance while budget is a problem it is important to highlight how best to use what is available.

Justice Muralidhar: “We need an audit of all the mandatory inspections and visits that are supposed to happen in prisons. How many times do they happens and how do well are they conducted”. #webinar

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Justice Muralidhar says that like
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we need to do Prisons or Detention Impact Assesment. The states make harsh laws which push people into jails and getting bail is difficult. We need to acknowledge the impact of new criminal laws and how they will

Justice Muralidhar emphasized that while accuracy of the data has to be ensured, it does not imply a delay in putting out the data. It is a unhealthy pattern where states usually put out data a year or two years after it is collected.

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Justice Muralidhar says future IJR should look at all kinds of detention and quasi-detention facilities because the range of detention facilities has increased and this needs to be acknowledged. #Webinar

Justice Muralidhar: I completely see the point that was being made that it is very hard to find out why they are in prison and how much time they have spent #webinar