JAIL MAIL: WERE INDIAN PRISONS EQUIPPED TO RESPOND TO THE PANDEMIC? -CHRI’s Analysis of Prison Statistics India 2019

Through this Jail Mail, CHRI shares – Ten Things You Should Know About Indian Prisons – an analysis of the latest prison statistics of India for the year 2019 released by the National Crime Records Bureau. This issue also focuses on some key findings from the analysis of the 2019 statistics, which are linked to the prison’s response to the virus, such as ‘overcrowding’, ‘prison infrastructure’ , ‘prison staff’, ‘expenditure on prisoners’, ‘older prisoners’, ‘deaths in prisons’ and ‘mental healthcare in prisons’.