PHYSCIAL HEALTH AND HYGIENE OF WOMEN PRISONERS

OBJECTIVES: This questionnaire attempts to understands the state of physical hygiene in

prisons. It aims to analyses the current state of physical hygiene and health facilities provided in
Indian prisons, the need for better hygiene, the various steps that have been undertaken and the
existing shortcomings and also cite possible remedial measures for the future. Prisons are meant
to primarily reform people. Instilling a sense of hygiene and sanitation is a very vital step
towards ensuring that these reformed individuals are also healthy citizens, as a healthy body
leads to a healthy mind.

TARGET JAIL: Central Jail, M.P.

QUESTIONNAIRE

BASIC QUESTION

1. NAME:

2. AGE:

3. UNDERTRIAL OR CONVICT:

4. Do you have a child with you in prison or are you pregnant or none?

5. In jail since……

MAIN QUESTIONS

6. Did you clean toilets, bathrooms and barracks? Who have mostly given the duty to clean

the toilets?

Convicts

Undertrial

Is it based on caste?

7. Is the drainage of the Jail being mostly in a satisfactory state?

8. Is the water supply sufficient that you (and their child, if any) can bathe regularly?
9. Have the drinking water wells been disinfected recently? What is the quality of water?

Clean

Dirty

Regular

purifier

10. How many pairs of undergarments do you get in a month or during your menstruation?

11. Did you get sanitary napkins during your menstruation?

If yes, then is it free of cost

If no, then how do you maintain your hygiene.

12. Did you provide for female doctors for your health check- ups or gynecologist?

13. At the onset of the pandemic, were you aware about the symptoms of the disease and

how to avoid getting infected? If yes, then what measures have been taken by the

authorities?

14. If prisoner is pregnant or have a child in prison, then any special food provided to them or

their child? If yes, then what are those.

15. Is the child have been vaccinated properly till now and examined properly by the lady

medical officer?