Ahead of Republic Day, Haryana government on Tuesday granted special remission of 30 to 90 days in sentence to prisoners in the state.
An interview with independent journalist Rupesh Kumar Singh from Jharkhand who has been languishing in Seraikela Jail after being arrested on July 17 from his house in Ramgarh by Kharsawan police.
'Serial killer' Adesh Khamra, accused of 34 murders, appears to be turning his life around in jail by reading religious and motivational books.
The Bihar government on Tuesday approved a proposal to release certain categories of prisoners serving sentences in various jails of the state
India Justice Report (IJR) said as of December 2021, 19 out of 36 states and UTs had overcrowding ranging from 185 per cent to 100.2 per cent, and undertrial prisoners comprised 77 per cent of the prison population -–...
A holding facility for high-profile prisoners, an isolated barrack in the Arthur Road Prison is getting yet another facelift fueling speculation that a new VIP prisoner may be lodged here soon.
On Thursday, 15 prisoners serving life sentences were pardoned and released after they were found to be corrected, officials said.
Chief Justice of India NV Ramana further said that hostility between political opponents is not healthy for Indian democracy.
A Marathi actor, who was arrested for allegedly sharing an `objectionable' post against a senior politician, on Friday claimed she was molested while she was...
Convicts Jitendra Shinde and Nitin Bhailume were sentenced to death by a trial court in November 2017 for raping and murdering a minor girl in 2016 in Kopardi...
A list of the fugitives' names has been put out on social media to help with the hunt, said the officials.
He said as of January 31, 2022, prisoners in six central, 19 districts and 31 sub-jails of the state were more than capacity.
Oudomsine, 31, pleaded guilty in October to a single count of wire fraud.
According to National Crime Records Bureau, 7 out of every 10 foreign-origin prisoners in Indian jails were undertrials.
According to NCRB'S annual 'Prison Statistics India 2020', of the 4.83 lakh inmates, 96 per cent were males, 3.98 per cent females and 0.01 per cent...
Of the total death row prisoners, 94 were sentenced to capital punishment in 2020, stated the National Crime Records Bureau's annual 'Prison Statistics India...
“We are of the prima facie view that cases of these prisoners should have been considered under the 2018 policy as their names were not considered at that...
As crime hurts, justice should heal. ‘Open prisons’ show us the way to a more compassionate society.
Under the Mukta scheme, the Maharashtra government aims to release the women(who committed minor crimes) who are in custody despite bail orders, as they are...
The transfer of Moroccan prisoner Abdullatif Nasser could suggest President Joe Biden is making efforts to reduce the Guantanamo population, which now stands...
A Tokyo court sentenced American father Michael Taylor and son Peter to prison for assisting Nissan's former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, in fleeing to Lebanon...
Danny Fenster was detained at Yangon International Airport on May 24 as he was trying to board a flight to go to the Detroit area in the United States to see...
Hours earlier, a Spanish court issued a preliminary ruling in favor of the 75-year-old tycoon's extradition to the United States to face tax-related criminal...
Their friends and family members had gathered outside the jail before their release.
