The Supreme Court in India ordered that caste details of prisoners be deleted from prison registries in a push to combat discrimination. Until now, prisons allocated inmates from oppressed communities ...

As the Supreme Court’s own research demonstrates, prisons remain one of the last institutional spaces where caste operates openly and administratively.

Karnataka prisons plan AI-based intrusion detection systems to boost security. Can smart surveillance improve prison ...

New Delhi: Prison population across India fell from 5,73,220 in 2022 to 5,30,333 in 2023, which helped in easing some pressure on the correctional facilities, but overcrowding remains acute in several ...

Alok Kumar on Tuesday inspected the Mangaluru District Jail as part of a statewide review of prison security and reform measures. Speaking to reporters, Kumar said all prisons in Karnataka would be ...

(CNN) — From his cell in a high-security Indian prison, Lawrence Bishnoi allegedly commands an empire. His throne room is a concrete box; his scepter a smartphone smuggled in to his confines. From ...