Prisoners' Rights

Prisoners waiting 3 hours in morning to use toilets: Delhi High Court calls for more restrooms in jails
Remission of Convicts: Supreme Court summons Uttar Pradesh Principal secretary
Abbas Ansari moves Supreme Court for bail in case filed over 'illegal' prison visits by wife
"Ground reality needs to be altered": Supreme Court reserves judgment in PIL on caste discrimination in prisons
Supreme Court pulls up states for failing to address prison overcrowding
What Supreme Court said on open prisons
Allahabad High Court denies bail to MLA Abbas Ansari in case over wife's unrestricted jail access
Supreme Court dismisses plea to raise number of prison visits by family members, lawyers
Caste discrimination in prisons: Supreme Court seeks response from Central government, States
Supreme Court e-SCR portal launched in Hindi; online portal to ensure prompt release of prisoners also launched
Kerala High Court pulls up authorities for housing prisoners in different jail blocks based on political allegiance
Madras High Court judge asks State to consider allowing conjugal visits in prisons for inmates
Delhi High Court refuses to interfere with Delhi government policy limiting jail visits to two per week
Premature release of prisoners in Uttar Pradesh: Supreme Court issues directions to save process from arbitrariness
Relax bail conditions suo motu if bail bond not furnished for a month: Supreme Court to trial courts
PIL before Bombay High Court seeks probe into death of 4 undertrial prisoners in Pune's Yerwada jail
Visitors are indispensable for enforcement of fundamental rights of prisoners: Madras High Court issues directions on prison reform
Madras High court seeks response from TN government on plea by Savukku Shankar accusing Cuddalore prison authorities of assaulting inmates
Madras High Court seeks response from TN government on upkeep of prison libraries
Kerala law student rape and murder: Supreme Court seeks response of Kerala, Assam on plea by death row convict for transfer to Assam jail
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