Illustration by Pariplab Chakraborty/The Wire. India.
Six A4 size notebooks bear witness to the 17 months Kiran Gawli spent in Nagpur Central prison. Each day, Kiran would unfailingly steal a few moments to note down the day’s events – of newly forged friendships, anguish, loneliness and sometimes heartbreak. Some days the words would flow like a poetry; on other days, just a few raw, angry lines. The diary – titled
Kiran-e-dastan (loosely translates to the memoirs of Kiran) – has words etched on each line and page.
Some pages of the deftly written book, however, are missing – as though someone has angrily ripped them out. The prison
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Long Waits, Hostile Staff: Prison Mulakats Take a Toll on Family Members of Those Incarcerated
TISS researchers have documented experiences of over 120 incarcerated persons, their families and prison officials over a period spanning seven months.
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Rights28/Dec/2020
Mumbai: Family members of incarcerated persons donât have it easy. From waiting in long queues to jostling inside the crammed
mulakat (visitors’) room inside the prison and a hostile prison staff, the family members have to struggle a great deal to ensure a meeting that may not last longer than a few minutes.
In a detailed study conducted across four states â Delhi, Haryana, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu â the plight of prisonersâ family members has been documented in great detail. The study titled âPrisonersâ contact with their families: Procedures, practices and experiencesâ has been conducted by Prayas, a field action project of the Tata Institu
From Segregation to Labour, Manuâs Caste Law Governs the Indian Prison System
In several states, prison manuals still dictate that labour within the prison should be assigned on the basis of caste.
Illustration: Pariplab Chakraborty
Rights10/Dec/2020
This article, part of the series ‘BarredâThe Prisons Project’, is produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
New Delhi/Mumbai/Bangalore: On his first day at the Alwar district prison, Ajay Kumar was gearing up for the worst. Torture, stale food, biting cold and harsh labour â Bollywood had already acquainted him with the grisly realities of jails. â
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