Madras High Court Bats For Better Prison Culture, Orders Preparation Of Prisoners’ Rights Handbook
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Madras High Court Bats For Better Prison Culture, Orders Preparation Of Prisoners’ Rights Handbook

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Noticing shortcomings in the manner in which prison administration is carried out at present, the Madras High Court has issued a slew of directions to the State and the Prison Department for creating a better prison environment and prison culture. The court made the directions on a petition filed by Peoples’ Watch, a Human Rights Organisation based in Madurai seeking directions to the respondents to appoint trained and skilled non-official visitors to the Board of Visitors to Jails as per Rule 507 of the Tamil Nadu Prison Rules, 1983 for visiting each of the Central Jails and Sub Jails to address the grievance of the prisoners. The court also directed for constitution of board of visitors in all prisons who would periodically review and advise the prison authorities on aspects such as training, correctional work etc. The court also noted that to ensure proper functioning of visitorial system, a yearly conference has to be conducted under the aegis of the State Human Rights Commission to review prison administration and recommend changes accordingly. To ensure the effective functioning of visitorial system in reforming the prisons, the state government shall organize a yearly conference under the aegis of the State Human Rights Commission with the official and non-official visitors of the board of visitors across the state, officials concerned with prison administration and correctional services to consider the status of prison administration, deliberate on the report of the board of visitors and recommend changes in the prison administration.

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The Hindu  

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Madras High Court Panel Questions Validity Of Supreme Court Order Setting Up Special Courts For MPs/MLAs

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The legal validity of establishing Special Courts for trial of MPs and MLAs has been questioned by the Criminal Rules Committee, comprising of three Judges from the Madras High Court. The Committee noted that the Supreme Court fell in error by ordering that a Central Scheme may be prepared for setting up of Courts, exclusively to deal with criminal cases …

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