PRISONS IN INDIA: AN EPITOME OF COLONIAL LEGACY

Abstract

Prisons in India are administered by the state government under the Prisons Act of 1894. An Indian prison accurately depicts an old and despised residential area that is home to people whose physical and physical health is in danger. Facts have proved that its imprisonment rate is the lowest in the world: 33 prisoners per 100,000; however, there is no difference between sentenced and imprisoned. Under the current circumstances, the prison’s goal—correcting prisoners—has not been achieved. In India, the idea of ​​rebuilding a prison was caused by the cruellest conditions that prisoners must face when incarcerated. Even prisoners are treated as animals in trials because their human rights are buried, because this shows the urgent need to change prison rules to ensure discipline and good governance. It does this by classifying multiple prisoners into civil and civil criminal prisoners, temporary offenders and ordinary offenders and criminals. The study of how prisons have evolved in our nation throughout the periods of history which play a major role in passive reforms brought about by the change of time and the authority also shows the various measures that need to be taken to develop prisons in India. Explains the different approaches taken by many countries to improve and redesign existing prisons and prison management systems.