The petitioner, in his plea, said certain provisions of the Prisons Act provide for punishments like whipping, restriction of food, penal diet is against the Constitution of India...

The capital city has three prison complexes, namely Tihar, Rohini and Mandoli, all of these comprise central jails...

The plea says solitary confinement is a 'measure of extreme brutality and depravity', is 'dehumanising' and destroys any hope of reformation and rehabilitation...

British court sentenced a 19 year old man for 11 years in prison for his videos promoting extremism, with the racist online material linked to have influenced two shootings in New York and Colorado...

Among those sentenced in absentia was government critic Mohamed Ali, a businessman exiled in Spain...

Baniwal had constituted a special vigilance team at Prison Headquarters for a major crackdown on the smuggling of communication gadgets into jails...

Readers write in from Siliguri, Nainital, Jamshedpur, Maruthancode, Chennai, Calcutta, Ujjain and Kanpur...

Bombay High Court refused to stay its order granting the former Maharashtra home minister bail in a corruption case registered by Central Bureau of Investigation...

Restriction on the rights of prisoners is problematic as it violates their fundamental rights, goes against the reformation theory, and erodes the basic fabric of democracy...

His remarks came amid a row over videos purportedly showing Delhi minister Satyendar Jain getting 'massages' in his prison cell...