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In A First, Fuel Outlet Run By Women Convicts Opens In Chennai
The nation's first retail fuel outlet run by women convicts who are still serving their prison sentences was inaugurated in Chennai on Friday by Tamil Nadu Minister for Law and Prisons S Regupathy.
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Married Women Prisoners In UP Can Wear Mangalsutra, Observe Karva Chauth
Married women prisoners will soon be able to wear a "mangalsutra" and observe festivals like Karva Chauth and Teej in Uttar Pradesh jails, according to provisions of the new jail manual, which will replace the colonial-era rules in the state.
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Women Prisoners In Maharashtra Can Now Make Video Calls To Families
Women prisoners and inmates of open jails across Maharashtra can now make video calls to their families and relatives, said a senior official of the prison department of the state government.
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With Mothers Imprisoned, Nearly 2,000 Children Had To Stay With Them In Jail In 2015
At the end of 2015, 17,834 women were in Indian prisons, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Of these, 66% were undertrials, 32% were convicts and 1% were detenues and other prisoners, the data show. Foreign inmates accounted for 1.1% (199) of India’s women prisoners. Between 2011 and 2015, the number of women impriso...
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Sheena Bora Case: Judicial Custody of Indrani Mukerjea Extended Till November 20
A Metropolitan Magistrate court in Mumbai extended the judicial custody of Indrani Mukerjea-prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case--and two others till November 20 after their week-long remand ended today.
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Alarm rises for Afghan women prisoners after Western troops leave
After Farida's husband sold their three-year-old daughter to support his drug habit of several years, she took a knife and stabbed him to death in their house in the western Afghan province of Herat.
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Sharp rise in number of Afghan women in prison for 'moral crimes'
About 600 Afghan women and girls are behind bars for so-called moral crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, the highest number since the Taliban were toppled almost twelve years ago.
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In A First, Fuel Outlet Run By Women Convicts Opens In Chennai
The nation's first retail fuel outlet run by women convicts who are still serving their prison sentences was inaugurated in Chennai on Friday by Tamil Nadu Minister for Law and Prisons S Regupathy.
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Married Women Prisoners In UP Can Wear Mangalsutra, Observe Karva Chauth
Married women prisoners will soon be able to wear a "mangalsutra" and observe festivals like Karva Chauth and Teej in Uttar Pradesh jails, according to provisions of the new jail manual, which will replace the colonial-era rules in the state.
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Women Prisoners In Maharashtra Can Now Make Video Calls To Families
Women prisoners and inmates of open jails across Maharashtra can now make video calls to their families and relatives, said a senior official of the prison department of the state government.
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With Mothers Imprisoned, Nearly 2,000 Children Had To Stay With Them In Jail In 2015
At the end of 2015, 17,834 women were in Indian prisons, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). Of these, 66% were undertrials, 32% were convicts and 1% were detenues and other prisoners, the data show. Foreign inmates accounted for 1.1% (199) of India’s women prisoners. Between 2011 and 2015, the number of women impriso...
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Sheena Bora Case: Judicial Custody of Indrani Mukerjea Extended Till November 20
A Metropolitan Magistrate court in Mumbai extended the judicial custody of Indrani Mukerjea-prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case--and two others till November 20 after their week-long remand ended today.
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Alarm rises for Afghan women prisoners after Western troops leave
After Farida's husband sold their three-year-old daughter to support his drug habit of several years, she took a knife and stabbed him to death in their house in the western Afghan province of Herat.
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Sharp rise in number of Afghan women in prison for 'moral crimes'
About 600 Afghan women and girls are behind bars for so-called moral crimes, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Tuesday, the highest number since the Taliban were toppled almost twelve years ago.
