JAIL MAIL -Prisons & Parliament Monsoon Session 2018

This newsletter is in continuation of our earlier Jail Mail on questions asked in the 2018 Budget Session of the Parliament. You may recollect that in that session, which was held in January-April 2018, the Members of Parliament asked 45 questions relating to prisons and prisoners. The monsoon session of parliament was held from 18th July to 10th August and saw 29 questions on prisons which ranged from prison conditions, monitoring and modernization, prison infrastructure, prison deaths, legal aid, prison overcrowding, bail, women inmates, children of prisoners, open prisons and Indian in foreign prisons, among others.