SC holds provisions of Prison Manuals/ Rules enabling caste-based discrimination of manual labour as unconstitutional
States and Union Territories have been directed to revise and change the prison manuals to end caste-based allotment of work.
Model Prison Manual
Madras High Court| Prison administration needs to be reformed to create a better environment and prison culture to ensure that prisoners enjoy their right to dignified life
Madras High Court said that, while dealing with the issue involved in this public interest litigation, the following words of the South African anti-apartheid activist, Nelson Mandela resonate in their mind – “No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones”.