Prison Reforms: India
We focus on improving prison oversight and reducing prolonged, illegal or unnecessary detention.
Activists sulk over new UP RTI rules
The Centre has circulated the newly framed Uttar Pradesh Right to Information (RTI) Act rules to all state governments and Information Commissions that has not gone down well with activists.
Unofficial translation of the Myanmar's Draft RTI law, 2016
CHRI Preliminary Comments and Key Concerns on Myanmar’s Draft Right to Information Bill, 2016
8 March, 2016 By Venkatesh Nayak CHRI has accessed an unofficial translation of the Draft RTI law of Myanmar, which can be found here.
Recommendations to Directorate of Correctional Services, West Bengal on compliance with Section 4, RTI Act - II
Right to Information
Recommendations to Directorate of Correctional Services, West Bengal on compliance with Section 4, RTI Act - I
Right to Information
Rajasthan Prison Visiting System - A Study on Role Perception and Role Knowledge of Non-Official Visitors (2011)
Prisons have always been closed institutions with many historical attempts to open them up, from being institutions of restraint and state vengeance to institutions for reformation.