{"id":210136,"date":"2022-10-11T20:15:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T14:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=210136"},"modified":"2022-10-11T20:15:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T14:45:16","slug":"indian-prisons-are-stretched-to-their-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-prisons-are-stretched-to-their-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian prisons are stretched to their limits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on an article\u00a0<strong>\u201c<\/strong><strong>Indian prisons are stretched to their limits\u201d <\/strong>published in\u00a0<strong>The Hindu<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>11<sup>th<\/sup> October 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 2 &#8211; Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Relevance:\u00a0<\/strong><strong>issues associated with prisons in India<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The prisons in India are over-crowded. The National Crime Records Bureau\u2019s \u2018Prison Statistics India\u2019 reports have provided various data on the condition of prison in India.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What does the data say about the over-crowded prison?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The capacity of prisons has increased from some 3.32 lakh to 4.25 lakh in the last decade, which is a 27% increase while the number of prisoners has increased from 3.7 lakh to 5.54 lakh in the same period, by 48%.<\/p>\n<p>This imbalance has caused the occupancy rate to surge from 112% to 130% in the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>The problem of over-crowding was worse in the northern States\/Union Territories (Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Delhi). The occupancy rate crossed 180% in 2021 in these regions.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the occupancy rate out of the 36 States and UTs increased in 26 states while in 18 of the states had the occupancy rate more than 100% in the year 2021.<\/p>\n<p>However, the occupancy rate decreased in Chhattisgarh and Punjab by 108% points and 51% points respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Among UTs the occupancy rate was highest in Delhi between the year 2011 and 2021. The occupancy rate increased from 60% to 183%, which is 122% increase.<\/p>\n<p>These data provide for the Indian prisoners while the data on foreign prisoners also show the dismal condition.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What does the data say on prison officers?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Over 60% of officer positions were vacant in 2019 in Uttarakhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Jharkhand and less than \u20b920,000 was spent on each prison inmate in 2019-20 in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Maharashtra.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, there are high vacancies for prison officers in some states and also the money spent on each prison inmate also varies widely across States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on an article\u00a0\u201cIndian prisons are stretched to their limits\u201d published in\u00a0The Hindu\u00a0on\u00a011th October 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 &#8211; Governance Relevance:\u00a0issues associated with prisons in India News: The prisons in India are over-crowded. The National Crime Records Bureau\u2019s \u2018Prison Statistics India\u2019 reports have provided various data on the condition of prison&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/indian-prisons-are-stretched-to-their-limits\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Indian prisons are stretched to their limits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10498],"class_list":["post-210136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703947138},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}