Project 39A recommends Jocelyn Simonson’s article titled, ‘Police Reform Through a Power Lens'.
The right to free legal aid is an essential ingredient of reasonable, fair and just procedure for a person accused of any
India has had a long history of encounters as a tool for crime control. In Mumbai, for instance, the infamous ‘encounter squad’
It is untenable that a prisoner's caste identity and social status are used to burden them with degrading labour and unequal treatment
In this episode of The 39A Podcast, Professor Vijay Raghavan and Dr. Anup Surendranath discuss the institutional imagination of prisons in India
The main objective of India’s penal policy is reform and rehabilitation. Providing prisoners with opportunities to work, and earn, helps in realizing
Section 110 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) empowers the police, with the sanction of the Executive Magistrate, to initiate preventive action