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The value of open prisons in India.
As of February 2008, India ad an incarceration rate of 5 per 100,000, which is one of the lowest in the world. Indian prisons housed 358,368 individuals, including pretrail and remand inmates, who constitute 69.7 percent of the prison population. Nearly 4 percent of inmates are female, less than one-fifth of 1 percent are juveniles under the age of 18 and 1.1 percent are foreigners (International Centre for Prison Studies, Kings College London, 2008).
India is divided into 28 states and seven union territories. (1) The constitution assigns the custody and correction of offenders to the individual states and territories. Day-to-day administration of inmat...See the full content of this document
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