View The Human Rights of Under Trial Prisoners in India.pdf from LAW 2 at Delhi Public School Hyderabad. 10/5/21, 7:54 AM SUBMIT CONTENT The Human Rights of Under Trial Prisoners in India ABOUT Right to live with human dignity. Apart from these rights of prisoners, the Constitution of India also provides the following rights to the prisoners: Right to meet friends and consult lawyer, Rights against solitary confinement, handcuffing & bar fetters and protection from torture, Right to reasonable wages in prison. It is evident that prison education in India is an institutionalised insufficiency - it is hardly mandated and regulated in policy, and finds even less importance in practice. Prisoners face systemic barriers in reintegrating back to society, thus continuing the cycle of incarceration. Very few studies exist to assess the nature of existing Preface This report is based on a two-week visit to India in October 1990 by Aryeh Neier, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, and David Rothman, Professor of Society and Medicine at Columbia the institution of prison to a correctional institution and to promote the rights of the prisoners as well. In this context, the present research work highlights the rights of the under-trial prisoners in India in the post-independence era. Keywords: State, Rights, Prison, Under-trial Prisoners, Post-colonial. 1. Introduction PIL - Voting Rights for Prisoners. On the other side, it is usually believed that India has the world's smallest prisoners population. According to some sources, 33 out of every 1, 00,000 people are behind the bar in India. Moreover, the criminal justice system is broken to a huge extent, and people usually do not get speedy justice The Constitution of India gives the status of equality to the women in India in every aspect of life. It also imposes an obligation on the State to protect the rights of the women and to fulfill the requirements of international conventions regarding the rights of the women. But the reality is women in prisons are facing many problems. As far as the current state of prisoners in India is concerned—it's atrocious. The Prison Statistics India Report, 2015 indicates that, "67 per cent of India's prison population comprises of under trial prisoners. This number has been consistently high, at an average of 66.97 per cent over the last 15 years" [5]. Furthermore, these Prisoner's right under prisoner's Act 1894. Prisons Act, of 1894 is the first legislation regarding prison regulation in India. This Act mainly focus on reformation of prisoners in connection with the rights of prisoners. Following Sections of the Prisons Act, 1894 are related with the reformation of prisoners: - regard to the legal and constitutional rights of prisoners in India especially the under trial prisoners. The present paper is an attempt to critically analyse theaforesaid case and for that purpose divides the article into several parts where each part will focus precisely on the issue in 2 Act No. 29 of 1950. 3 Act Why in News. The Supreme Court (SC) of India has ordered the interim release of eligible prisoners in view of the uncontrolled second surge in the raging Covid-19 pandemic.. The Court's order aims to decongest jails and a measure that protects the right to life and health of the prisoners.; Key Points. Important Points of Supreme Court Order: Emphasised the need to adhere to the norms it had Why in News. The Supreme Cou