JAIL MAIL: NELSON MANDELA DAY Ten Things You Must Know About Indian Prisons

On the 101st birth anniversary of Nelson Mandela CHRI’s shares its analysis of the prison statistics on 10 key aspects. These include proportion of undertrial prisoners, period of detention of undertrial prisoners, deaths inside prisons, prisoners by type of offence, educational qualification of prisoners, prison officials and staff, women prisoners, prison inspections, expenditure on a prisoner per day and foreign national prisoners.