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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
chandigarh news
Published on May 02, 2026 06:32 pm IST

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

UP jail minister Dara Singh Chauhan (HT File Photo)
lucknow news
Published on Jan 09, 2026 07:01 pm IST

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)
delhi news
Published on Dec 07, 2025 04:01 am IST

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)
chandigarh news
Published on Dec 05, 2025 08:30 am IST

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)
opinion
Published on Aug 25, 2025 08:36 pm IST

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)
opinion
Published on Jun 21, 2025 10:35 pm IST

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

An aerial view of the area around PWD Headquarters (Sanchit Khanna/Hindustan Times)
delhi news
Published on Jun 19, 2025 05:48 am IST

What to know about onetime Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, whose federal sentence Trump commuted

What to know about onetime Chicago gang leader Larry Hoover, whose federal sentence Trump commuted
us news
Updated on Oct 06, 2025 09:39 pm IST

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
opinion
Published on Mar 15, 2025 06:20 pm IST

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

HT Image
delhi news
Published on Aug 31, 2024 11:22 pm IST

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.
hollywood
Published on Jan 03, 2024 06:14 pm IST

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))
pune news
Updated on Aug 19, 2023 11:52 pm IST

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

Representational image.
news
Published on Feb 23, 2021 02:26 pm IST

Prison reforms crucial to refining the justice system

The year-on-year trend over five years [2012-2016] shows between 0.5 to 1.5% increase in the share of undertrials per year.
india news
Published on Nov 12, 2019 04:23 am IST

The mess called Punjab jails

One of the injured inmates being brought to the civil hospital after the clash at the central jail in Ludhiana.
chandigarh news
Updated on Jun 28, 2019 02:02 pm IST

Prisons must do more to help their women inmates

Prisons were clearly designed, keeping in mind only male inmates. The concept of having women inmates, accompanied at times by their children, came at a much later stage. Prison authorities are yet to accept having a separate library for women inmates.
analysis
Published on Jun 10, 2019 08:00 am IST

Lok Sabha elections 2019: In Congress manifesto, new court of appeals tops legal reform list

The Congress pledged to establish a Court of Appeal to hear appeals related to judgments and orders of the high courts.
lok sabha election 2019
Published on Apr 03, 2019 12:07 am IST

New manual being implemented in city jails, Delhi government tells HC

File photo of Tihar jail. The Delhi government told the Delhi HC that the new manual would address issues of prison reforms and bring basic uniformity in rules.
delhi news
Published on Jan 11, 2019 03:18 pm IST

Supreme Court fines 7 states ₹50,000 for delays in prison reforms case

The Supreme Court on Saturday imposed a cost of ₹50,000 on some state governments for not cooperating with the Centre in filling up vacancies in Forensic Science Laboratories (FSL). The states include Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Odisha, Assam and Goa.
india news
Updated on Dec 01, 2018 06:04 pm IST

‘A system which creates so many undertrials is a flawed system’

Jayant Umranikar has authored a book on police reforms and was on a committee on prison reforms in late 2000.
pune news
Updated on May 19, 2018 04:36 pm IST

Mumbai’s female inmates ‘languishing’ in due to inferior legal aid

The NCW suggests an in-house gynaecologist and pediatrician for inmates and their children
mumbai news
Updated on Apr 28, 2018 11:36 pm IST

‘Prisoners cannot be kept like animals’: SC shocked at 600% overcrowding in jails

A bench of Justices MB Lokur and Deepak Gupta also warned the Directors General of Police (Prisons) of all states and UTs of contempt notice for non-compliance of its earlier orders with regard to submitting a plan of action to deal with issue of overcrowding prisons.
india news
Updated on Mar 30, 2018 07:29 pm IST
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