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Prisons, Correctional Services Bill focuses on transformation of jails: Punjab minister

Prisons, Correctional Services Bill focuses on transformation of jails: Punjab minister

Published 72 days ago

UP jails: Minister reviews functioning, orders tighter surveillance, stronger reforms

UP jail minister Dara Singh Chauhan (HT File Photo)

Published 185 days ago

CJI launches skill development centres, polytechnic courses for inmates across Haryana jails

Chief Justice of India Surya Kant inaugurates Polytechnic for Diploma Courses at District Prison Bhondsi on Saturday. (PTI)

Published 218 days ago

HC to launch skill development programmes for prison inmates

In a significant push towards reformative justice, the Punjab and Haryana high court, in collaboration with the Chandigarh administration, is set to launch a series of skill development programmes at Model Jail, Burail, Chandigarh. (Representational image)

Published 220 days ago

What needs to be done to curb prison overcrowding

The tolerance for the sub-human life lived by others normalises the breach of the rule of law. It mocks the constitutional principle that every citizen’s life is more than mere animal existence. (Biplov Bhuyan/HT PHOTO)

Published 321 days ago

When India was turned into a vast prison house

Jayaprakash Narayan, as he was being taken to jail, is said to have remarked vinasha kaale vipareeta buddhi. (HT Archive)

Published 386 days ago

Work on Narela high-security prison to start later this year

An aerial view of the area around PWD Headquarters (Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times)

Published 389 days ago

Judge who made prisoner dignity key to jail reforms

Under Justice S Rahdakrishnan’s guidance, the Bombay-HC-ordered committee on prison reforms organised two seminars for law college students, to motivate them to render voluntary legal aid to prisoners

Published 485 days ago

Delhi Minister Kailash Gahlot inspects Tihar; mental health programme to be launched across all prisons

HT Image

Published 680 days ago

Gypsy Rose eyes Kim Kardashian for prison reform partnership

Gypsy Rose Blanchard reaches out to Kim Kardashian on Twitter, expressing interest in collaborating on prison reform.

Published 922 days ago

State prison dept hikes wages of inmates

Maharashtra Prison Department has announced a 10 per cent hike in the daily wages of inmates across the state. ((PIC FOR REPRESENTATION))

Updated 1058 days ago

Around 250 illiterate inmates of Fatehpur prison to be taught to read and write

Representational image.

Published 1966 days ago

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