{"id":216201,"date":"2022-11-28T19:05:26","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T13:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=216201"},"modified":"2022-11-28T19:05:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T13:35:26","slug":"the-presidents-caution-on-overcrowding-of-prisons-is-a-wake-up-call-to-the-executive-and-judiciary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-presidents-caution-on-overcrowding-of-prisons-is-a-wake-up-call-to-the-executive-and-judiciary\/","title":{"rendered":"The President\u2019s caution on overcrowding of prisons is a wake-up call to the executive and judiciary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article \u201cThe President\u2019s caution on overcrowding of prisons is a wake-up call to the executive and judiciary\u201d <\/strong>published in the Indian Express<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a028th<\/sup>\u00a0November 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Syllabus<\/strong>: GS 2 \u2013 Prison reforms<\/p>\n

Relevance<\/strong>: About overcrowding of prisons.<\/p>\n

News<\/strong>: Recently, the President called the government and the judiciary to address the issue of overcrowding of prisons. The President mentioned that India is “forced to make new prisons because prisons are overcrowded. This raises questions about India’s move towards progress as a society.<\/p>\n

Note<\/strong>: Recently, the law minister also suggested that only trial courts ought to decide to grant bail.<\/em><\/p>\n

What is the present status of the overcrowding of prisons according to Prison Statistics?<\/h5>\n

Prison Statistics India<\/strong> is a report published by the Ministry of Home Affairs.\u00a0According to its 2021 edition, a)<\/strong> Between 2016-2021, the number of convicts in jails decreased by 9.5% whereas the number of undertrial inmates increased by 45.8%, b)\u00a0<\/strong>With three out of four prisoners being undertrials, the problem of overcrowding of prisons is essentially an undertrial issue, c)<\/strong>\u00a0Around 80% of prisoners were confined for periods up to a year.<\/p>\n

What needs to be done to address the overcrowding of prisons?<\/h5>\n

The government need to tackle the root cause instead of providing bail. Such as addressing the indiscriminate arrest of individuals.<\/p>\n

Similarly, the government has to identify\u00a0those who cannot afford bail and facilitate them with bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read more: About Prison reforms: What numbers don\u2019t tell us<\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Source: The post is based on the article \u201cThe President\u2019s caution on overcrowding of prisons is a wake-up call to the executive and judiciary\u201d published in the Indian Express\u00a0on\u00a028th\u00a0November 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 Prison reforms Relevance: About overcrowding of prisons. News: Recently, the President called the government and the judiciary to address the issue… Continue reading The President\u2019s caution on overcrowding of prisons is a wake-up call to the executive and judiciary<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10311,"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":[212,10500],"class_list":["post-216201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700809265,"cached_date":1703053499},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216201","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\/10311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}