An undertrial in the Elgaar Parishad terrorism case who started a hunger strike against poor living conditions in Navi Mumbai’s Taloja Central Prison last weekend called off the protest on the a...

Hope Behind Bars: Notes From Indian Prisons Edited by: Sanjoy Hazarika and Madhurima Dhanuka Publisher: Pan Macmillan Price: Rs 599 Both as an experience and subject, incarceration, generally spe...

An investigation has been launched by Sri Lanka's jail authorities on the allegations that a group of inmates from a prison camp in the island nation were used to attack anti-government protesters...

Bombay High Court pulled up jail authorities for denying Navlakha books by P.G. Wodehouse. Jail officials had claimed it was a “security risk”. Previously, Father Stan, who had Parkinson&...

An Indian-origin man who ran a secretive extremist Maoist cult in London and was sentenced to 23 years in jail by a UK court for a string of sexual assaults six years ago has died in jail. Aravindan ...

  A journalist and a few activists who were protesting against the arrest of an artist were detained and forced to strip down to their undergarments while in police custody in Madhya Pradesh'...

Prison terms are meant to serve as punishment for serious crimes and as deterrents against repeat offences. In India, the prison system is failing on both counts. A Jharkhand government initiative is ...

The Supreme Court has opened up a new dimension in the assessment of death row prisoners. In a landmark judgment, the court made psychological evaluation mandatory for convicts likely to be awarded ca...

For years, under-trial prisoners have outnumbered convicted persons in Indian prisons. But now the National Crime Records Bureau’s report, Prison Statistics India: 2020, shows that under-trial p...

A 50-year-old fisherman from Gujarat, who was apprehended by Pakistani authorities a year ago on high seas, died in a jail in that country due to unknown reasons, an official said on Monday. The dece...