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SCENE BEHIND FOUR WALLS


  SCENE BEHIND 4 WALLS


"JAIL" and "PRISON", these two words bring the feeling of despair; fear and frustration as the verdict is handled by the courts. The Prison is governed by the Prison Act 1900 in the 4th state list of the 7th schedule of the Indian constitution.

The responsibility and authority to change rules, laws, and regulations lie with the State while the Central Government provides full assistance to help to improve security, repair, renovation, medical facilities, facilities to women offenders, vocational training, and high-security jails. Indian law has different categories of jails on basis of Crime, Location, Gender, Age, etc.

These are categories of jails: - 
  •  Central Jail 
  •  District Jail 
  •  Sub- Jail 
  • Women Jail 
  •  Borstal School  
  •  Open Jail 
  •  Special Jail 
  • Other Jail


The prisoners sentenced to 2 years of imprisonment are sent to Central Jail, where rehabilitation facilities are better. Women Jails are meant executively for Women offenders. Borstal schools are for minor offenders. Special jails are for the highly convicted offender of prison in like terrorism, murder mostly who break discipline. 







 Thiar jail in New Delhi is the largest complex of prison in South Asia.


As per the statistics of December 2018, the number of male prisoners was 98% and the women prisoner was 4.2%. Most of the jails these days are overcrowded or will be overcrowded as 3.1 crore cases are pending before the Supreme Court.

Talking about the prisoners in India, jails are a virtual hell for them. The cells are often infected by insects and cockroaches. Hygiene is a low priority as a lack of water for bathing and no proper drinking water availability. The cells are not well lit or well ventilated. The food served to them is of low quality and not of enough nutrition.




A person in the prison should not be entitled to be a non-person. Certain rights are given to them viz Right to life and personal liberty right to live with human dignity, medical aid, and assistant, right to a speedy trial, right to free legal aid, right to be released on the due date.

Nowadays, the gang war in jails is common. There are cases of sexual abuse by staff and inmates, especially on women offenders. The special need and problems of pregnant women and women with small children are often ignored.




To improve the conditions of the prisoners, the right of the prisoners should be spelled out and practiced. Communication between the offenders and the judicial system should be made comfortable and free. The internal mechanism should be trained. Classification of prisoners and punishment needs to phase out. The jail staff has to be thoroughly sensitized to the trauma that imitates face, horror stories of crime echoing in their mind.

Overall the atmosphere of fear anxiety, distress, frustration, and violation of human rights need to be replaced by one of trust, care, guidance, faith, and protection.



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