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Plight of Undertrial Prisoners in India
Loaded on July 15, 1997
by Sankar Sen
published in Prison Legal News
July, 1997, page 20
In India there are 85 central prisons, 252 district prisons, 14 women's prisons, and about 547 sub-jails. The exact number of prisoners in the country is not known. At the end of 1993, according to one estimate, there were about 200,000 prisoners throughout India. Of that number, about 137,838 (or ...
Filed under:
Voting,
Conditions of Confinement,
Overcrowding,
Jail Specific,
Prisoners-International.
Location:
India.
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