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The Wire s Sukanya Shantha Wins ACJ Social Impact Award for Story on Caste in Indian Prisons
The 2020 ACJ Award for Investigative Journalism went to Arshu John and Prabhjit Singh of Caravan magazine.
Sukanya Shantha.
New Delhi:Â Sukanya Shantha, a reporter at
The Wire, has won the Asian College of Journalism’s 2020 K P Narayana Kumar Memorial Award for Social Impact Journalism for her in-depth article on caste in Indian prisons, ‘From Segregation to Labour, Manuâs Caste Law Governs the Indian Prison System‘.
“The winning entry succeeds emphatically in giving voice to the voiceless and in shining a light on under reported issues. Sukanya Shantha, writing for The Wire, focusses on one of the most hidden of social issues – what happens behind bars in India’s prisons. The entry convincingly reveals the persistence of caste-based segregation, discrimination and division of labour within the prison system in states which have chosen not to adopt the ‘model’ pri