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No REMEDIAL MEASURES IMPLEMENTAION MODEL

SHORT-TERM LONG-TERM ACTION TO BE AGENCY
TAKEN
1

Overcrowding in prisons is largely a geographical problem. Only a handful of states and handful of jails have this
problem. Focus should be on those states and on those Jails.
Priority- Metropolitan cities. All the jails in Metropolitan cities are overcrowded and they remain overcrowded for a
considerable time.
A committee at state level should monitor the situation for every 6 months and submit a report to both state and
central Govt and SC and HC of respective state with action taken report. This committee should look into land
allocation, budget allocation and timely completion of works.
Central government should tie up the grants for police modernization with overcrowding, for fixing up the
responsibility on the critical stakeholder in this endeavour.
Mapping of court complexes and other public properties in State Head quarters and district head quarters for
constructing vertical jails for Under trial prisoners. Cost effective solution.

2
Police Housing
Construction of new buildings with multi Recruitment of Judges and construction of By the Government. Corporation.
floors. new courts. Speedy disposal of cases.

No conviction in Drunk and Drive cases and Following trends.

other petty cases. Instead huge fines can be Reports to be obtained from DG Prisons
imposed. for projections.
436 a CrPC to be followed strictly.
Judiciary Dept.
Bail on personal bond is to be considered
(except theft, robbery, dacoity, rape, murder
)

Regular jail adalaths to be conducted. Judiciary Dept.

Period of Charge sheet to be reduced to 2

months.
Judiciary Dept.

Regular visits of the government doctors (all DMHO

departments) to jails to prevent Out patients.

Deaddiction centers to be opened in jails.

DMHO

Construction of well equipped hospitals in

District and Central jails. And regular
posts to be sanctioned. State Government.
All violent and abnormal prisoners to be
sent to central jails only. Prisons department.

Jails must be categorized by how the Prisons department

criminals to be lodged.

High walls, live wire arrangements, CCTV

arrangements, concertina wire
arrangements to be done. Prisons department

Psychiatrist posts to be sanctioned to

prevent suicides.

Government.

Maximum usage of video linkage for Judiciary and prisons

preventing of lapses. department.

Regular jail visits of judges. Judiciary dept.

When jail authorities recommend for parole

and furlough it must be done.
 Police department

Every court must has one online website so

that it can follow up the status of the cases. Judiciary dept.

All jails should have vocational training

instructor posts. And jails should be
connected to ITI institutions.

Government.

Jails warders to be trained in vocational

subjects to teach inmates.
 Prisons department.
Sensitization of Police and judiciary
Training programmes in Police acadamies
and Judicial Academies. Course from
BPR&D

Arrests

Failure of trial

Failure of release mechanism