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  2. Prisons in India - Wikipedia

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    The majority of prisoners are housed in a jail from their home state. Around 91.1% of prisoners belonged to the state in which the prison is located, while 7.5% hailed from other states, and 1.5% were foreign citizens. The number of foreign prisoners in India was 6,370 as on 31 December 2016, a decrease of 5.4% from the previous year.

  3. Kerala Prisons and Correctional Services - Wikipedia

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    Women Prison & Correctional Homes serve as facilities for incarcerating female offenders, regardless of their sentence length, as well as accommodating women prisoners awaiting trial or those under remand.

  4. Jail industry - Wikipedia

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    This is due to the lack of available work opportunities within the prison system. According to a 2011 report by the Hindustan Times, the majority of convicts sentenced to "rigorous imprisonment" in India do not engage in work as most prisons in the country lack sufficient demand for prison labor. Specifically, the report indicates that 99% of ...

  5. List of prisons in India - Wikipedia

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    Central Prison, Shivamogga Women Central Prison, Shivamogga Karnataka has 105 prisons including 9 Central Prisons, 21 district prisons, 30 taluk jails, 44 revenue taluk jails [ 11 ] (sub-jails), 1 borstal school, 1 open jail, 2 special jails and 1 other jail (Juvenile Jail).

  6. Indian prison literature - Wikipedia

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    Indian prison literature is the prison literature mainly written by Indians who were incarcerated in the Indian subcontinent.It provides a unique entry-point into the nature of punishments, and crime, and holds a mirror to the conditions of prisoners, reflecting on the intricacies of the functioning of jails and prison houses, features of law and legal systems in a particular time and place.

  7. Bangalore Central Prison - Wikipedia

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    Central Prison, Bengaluru (also called Bengaluru Central Jail and Parappana Agrahara Central Prison) is the largest prison in the Indian state of Karnataka. [1] Established in 1997, it became the central prison of Bengaluru in 2000 when the old jail, which has since been converted to Freedom Park , was shut for renovation.

  8. Organised crime in India - Wikipedia

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    The spelling is the anglicised version of the Hindustani word daaku, "dacoit" / d ə ˈ k ɔɪ t / is a colloquial Indian English word with this meaning, it appears in the Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases (1903). [24] Banditry is criminal activity involving robbery by groups of armed bandits.

  9. Sabarmati Central Jail - Wikipedia

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    Sabarmati Central Jail is the main prison in Ahmedabad in Gujarat. It was established in 1895. [1] Mahatma Gandhi was imprisoned here for few days in 1922. [2] It is the hub of various activities for Reformation, Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Prisoners. Educational Institutes like IGNOU and BAOU are giving all correspondence courses to ...