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‘VIP treatment’ in jail: Karnataka minister G Parameshwara announces high-level probe panel; 2 officials suspended
November 11, 2025 5:18 am
Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara said a technical audit of the security apparatus in prisons will be carried out, and undertrials at Parappana Agrahara jail will be separated from the convicts.
Life on the run was just the latest twist in an escaped inmate’s saga
October 16, 2025 10:18 pm
Convicted killer Derrick Groves, who led a dramatic jailbreak from New Orleans’ Orleans Justice Center in May.
Tillu Tejpuria fallout: Haryana to give Rs 7.5 lakh compensation for unnatural death of jail inmates
May 12, 2023 6:40 pm
Even if an inmate dies by suicide, jail officials will be penalised; 50% of the compensation to be recovered from erring officials.
MHA to provide financial help to poor jail inmates unable to afford penalty, bail amount
April 07, 2023 6:56 pm
The facility will enable poor prisoners, majority of whom belong to socially disadvantaged or marginalised groups with lower education and income level, to get out of prison, the MHA said.
What does Punjab’s jail manual say about food for inmates?
May 26, 2022 4:02 pm
The spotlight is now on the diet after a medical board prescribed a seven-meal diet including various juices and only one mixed-grain chappati a day for Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, who is serving a one-year rigorous jail term.
Maharashtra: After turning into quarantine centre for jail inmates, Alibag school reopens for students
February 03, 2021 3:52 am
While schools across the state, barring Mumbai, Thane and Navi Mumbai, had opened to students from Class V to VIII last week, at the primary school 1 and 2 in Alibag, teachers awaited their RT-PCR test reports and decided to let students in only after all of them tested negative for Covid-19.
Maharashtra: High caseload among jail inmates, prison dept ramps up testing
September 07, 2020 11:26 pm
As of now, 33 out of 47 prisons in the state have reported positive cases. The total number of reported cases from prisons were 2,155 as of Monday, including 1,772 inmates and 383 staff.
At 118 inmates in space for 100, share of undertrials in jails up: NCRB data
August 30, 2020 7:43 am
More than 18 lakh people were brought to jails in 2019, of which over 3 lakh continue to languish without any recourse to bail, the data for 2019 shows.
Covid cases in Maharashtra prisons cross 1,000, 25 jails affected
August 17, 2020 10:50 pm
Following directions from the Bombay High Court, random testing of inmates and staff is also being undertaken, along with mandatory testing of high-risk contacts of inmates and staff who have tested positive.
Not 11,000, Maharashtra govt to release 17,000 inmates now after 185 positive cases detected in two jails
May 12, 2020 10:20 pm
A high-powered committee (HPC), formed as per Supreme Court directives to lay down steps to decongest prisons in the backdrop of the pandemic, held a meeting on Monday after 185 positive cases surfaced at Arthur Road Jail along with one case in Byculla Jail.
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