SC: Make prisons reformative, give women right to open jails | India News – The Times of India

SC: Make prisons reformative, give women right to open jails | India News – The Times of India

NEW DELHI: In an effort to transform India’s punitive prison system into reformative centres, Supreme Court has mandated radical reforms and ruled that women inmates, like male prisoners, have a fundamental right to be lodged in open correctional institutions (OCIs), which must change character from labour camps to vocational training centres and allow inmates’ to…

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Karnataka shifts prison chief, suspends 2 officials after row over VVIP treatment | India News – The Times of India

Karnataka shifts prison chief, suspends 2 officials after row over VVIP treatment | India News – The Times of India

BENGALURU: Amid outrage over viral videos showing VVIP treatment for inmates — including terror suspects and convicted rapists — at Bengaluru Central Prison, Karnataka government on Monday transferred the prison’s chief superintendent and suspended two senior officials, while ordering an ADGP-headed probe into irregularities across all prisons in the state.Home minister G Parameshwara convened an…

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Will Donald Trump commute Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sentence? Here’s what we know | – The Times of India

Will Donald Trump commute Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ sentence? Here’s what we know | – The Times of India

President of the United States Donald J. Trump has allegedly been thinking of commuting the sentence of the disgraced music mogul, Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. Earlier this month, the convicted felon was given a 50-month sentence for violating the Mann Act. However, the Republican reportedly has set his mind to sign the commutation documents and set…

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