Supreme Court Panel Recommends Several Prison Reforms
- Recently, a Supreme Court-appointed committee headed by Justice Amitava Roy (retd.) to reform prisons submitted its report to the Chief Justice of India giving several suggestions to improve the living conditions in Indian prisons.
- In September 2018 the court had appointed the Justice Roy Committee to examine the various problems plaguing prisons, from overcrowding to lack of legal advice to convicts to issues of remission and parole.
- The decision was in reaction to a letter written by former Chief Justice of India R.C. Lahoti highlighting the overcrowding of prisons, unnatural deaths of prisoners, gross inadequacy of staff and the lack of ....
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