Has the time come for the Supreme Court to suo motu articulate a cogent protection regime for the rights of those in prison or other forms of custodial confinement?

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Prisoned and Penniless

- April 14, 2023

Abysmally low wages for prisoners has put a question mark on prison reforms. Recommendations of the All India Jail Reforms Committee have only partially been implemented by states.

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The Supreme Court had directed that all convicts and undertrials, released during the Covid-19 pandemic to decongest jails, should surrender within a fortnight. The top court also dismissed an application filed by a convict for considering the parole granted during the pandemic as part of his actual sentence since it was involuntary

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