Ensuring Effective Representation

Early access to counsel is a crucial indicator of effective representation. One of the vital buffers against torture, ill treatment, confessional statements and illegal detention is access to a well trained lawyer primarily at the time of arrest and first appearance in Courts.

Undertrial Review Committees

71 % prisoners are awaiting trial in India. They are not yet proven guilty but they have spent often years at length in detention. This has contributed to prison overcrowding that results in desperate living conditions.

Prison Visiting System

As long back as 1894, the government accepted by way of Section 59(25) in the Prison Act that a system of visitors both from civil society and government in prisons would be of value to the management and monitoring of prisons. Thus, making it mandatory to have a prison visiting system at place.