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A forum for students of Public Policy to discuss pressing socio-political issues in India.
This week: Prison Violence In India

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Delhi’s Tihar Jail, the country’s largest with 17,500 inmates, authorities plan to release 3,000, of whom 400 have already been released. Prison authorities said they have been careful to release inmates who belong to the same city.
https://t.co/puzbTg2tT0

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Prisoners are being released on parole and interim bails, to avoid the corona virus spreading in prisons
inmates will not only be safer from the virus, but the inmates released will also manage to escape some form of prison violence they were facing
https://t.co/puzbTg2tT0

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The following is an important compilation of relevant data on female prisoners, indicating the severity of the problems faced

https://t.co/RZOt7IgFgK

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The prison riot in the female prisons in 2017 was covered even by the Washington Post who was quick to notice that the reports only focused on the "celebtrity prisoner"

https://t.co/Hpa08HSfAD

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As mentioned earlier, prisons are unhygienic and over crowded, which raises the question - what is India doing to protect them from the corona virus?

https://t.co/kIQQWsdRVm

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The following paper, documents not only the abuse but also a rising HIV problem due to the sexual abuse. It also touches upon to the legal system and how it is not serving justice to these prisoners
https://t.co/VWg0berS1o

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Same Sex rape remains to be one of the most common reasons for suicide among prisoners
Not much has been done to fix this problem
https://t.co/aC9kKsSLzo

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Here is another paper about prison conditions in India, that addresses the class system inside and even prisoners who have been convicted for "politically motivated offenses".
It tries to address "what is to be done" which is a very important conversation
https://t.co/4RqmBEpZVH

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Rampant overcrowding is a severe problem in Indian prisons. This along with a staff crunch are excuses commonly used by authorities to justify prison violence.

https://t.co/VocOFEKEEI

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This case is an example of the custodial violence that is rampant amongst prisons in India. The lawyer in defence of the police said that any action will bring down the morale of police. Such claims and justifications were deemed baseless by the court!

https://t.co/aBnBO8Idkf

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There is a lot that the report misses like the demographic details of the prisoners and a lot of violence is also underreported. The lack of data makes it difficult to put numbers down, and understand the severity of the problem.

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Beginning by sharing the latest prison stats report that can help us get a better picture of the numbers that are available about prisoners in India.
https://t.co/NbCczUWAWE

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Hi! I am Saksham Tandon, I am a second year student at FLAME University, majoring in Public Policy with an open minor in which I have taken up courses in media,film and gender! I will be talking about Violence against prisoners this week!

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Climate change exacerbates inequalities, not only in poor, developing countries, but also in industrialized, wealthy ones. The poor should be given special importance when planning, experts say.
https://t.co/1uzTWIbazU

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Tribal communities have accumulated Traditional Ecological Knowledge which has allowed them to coexist with forests and water bodies without destroying them. It's rarely recognized that they have something crucial to contribute to the climate debate. https://t.co/Qo4pHVjM3e

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A common point of discussion when it comes to climate change is its resultant shortage of water. The poor and marginalised are most affected when water supply dwindles. The equitable distribution of water needs more attention.
https://t.co/brnsCmgcJY

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When disaster strikes, those most effected by it are poor, marginalised people. The current COVID-19 pandemic is an example for the same. Similar conditions will arise when climate related disasters strike and they will strike. Read more: https://t.co/XYZupijCgz

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As the current climate crisis escalates, the most marginalised segments of the society will be the first to suffer, and that is perhaps why fighting climate change is far down in political priorities. Read more: https://t.co/a4a06vMWr9

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Mahila Housing Trust, an Ahmadabad based NGO is helping urban slums to adapt to pressing climate change issues such as heat stress and flooding. Through their climate resilience program, the NGO has trained and equipped women to become Climate Saathis. https://t.co/KtdNAU4lXT

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Climate governance policy remains strikingly ignorant of the sociocultural context that it is embedded in, and is thus unable to account for the gender and caste inequalities that are dominant in today’s patriarchal institutions.
https://t.co/GZil6Wzfww