India: Hope for male prisoners

	posted by Matt on 11:06 AM June 22nd, 2006
	Anonymous User writes "Friday, a new law comes into effect. Under this law, a prisoner can claim bail as a matter of right if he/she has been under detention for more than half the prescribed period of imprisonment. There were more than 217,000 undertrials in Indian jails (2003), 96.5% of whom were male. See http://ncrb.nic.in/PS-2003.pdf. With this law, about 50,000 inmates are expected to be set free. Most of them will be male since males typically spend more time in jail as undertrials."

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Notable? (Score:1) by masculanium (kgl_m@DELyahoo.com) on 03:54 AM June 23rd, 2006 EST (#1) How is this men's rights related? I'm not at all surprised that India has mostly male prisoners - women are not as likely to commit crime because of a myriad of reasons including the fact that its the man's job to provide, but this piece doesn't strike me as male-positive news.

India: Hope for male prisoners (Score:1) by arindamp on 04:48 PM June 23rd, 2006 EST (#2) Did you see this outrgeous change in law? prohibition of arrest of a woman after sunset and before sunrise except in exceptional circumstances. And they say men and women are equal?

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