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Change mindset, set up open jails, advises Supreme Court

Team SoOLEGAL 21 Dec 2017 11:01am

Change mindset, set up open jails, advises Supreme Court

Emphasising the need for a change of mindset of governments to make jail a reformative and rehabilitative place for people who are caught on the wrong side of the law, the Supreme Court has favoured setting up of open jails where inmates are not confined to the boundaries of the jail and allowed to live with their family members outside the jail during the day and earn livelihood on their own.

Holding that criminal justice system in the country is based on reformation and rehabilitation of criminals, a bench of Justices Madan B Lokur and Deepak Gupta said that the governments must take humane approach towards prisoners and directed the Centre to convene a meeting with the Directors General and Inspectors General of Prison of all states and union territories to examine the feasibility of setting up of open jail in each district.

"The Ministry of Home Affairs will send a communication to the concerned authorities in the state and UTs asking for their response to the idea of open prisons - whether they are willing to set up open prisons and the manner in which the open prisons could be operated. The concerned authorities should respond to the Ministry preferably within a period of four weeks and the meeting will be held immediately thereafter in the first week of February, 2018," the court said.

[Source: TOI]



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