Origin of Solitary Confinement in India Social and prison reformers in the late 1780s promoted isolation as a humane alternative to existing corporal punishment. They believed that the silence in ...

Sooraj Pancholi, who faced intense scrutiny following the 2013 suicide of Jiah Khan, shared chilling details of his 22-day ordeal in solitary confinement at Arthur Road Jail. In a candid conversation ...

The blast killed 17 persons and injured 60 others. The Bombay High Court on Wednesday sought to know from the Maharashtra prison authorities how long they plan to keep Himayat Baig, convicted in ...

A British national held in India over terrorism charges has been moved to solitary confinement despite being acquitted in one case last month, his family said. Jagtar Singh Johal, 37, a Dumbarton ...

Mumbai: The Maharashtra government on Monday informed the Bombay High Court that as per law, no prison in the state follows the system of solitary confinement, but prisoners convicted of heinous ...

Soon this man would defect to India and, on his way to Bangladesh ... "This is where my solitary confinement, in the real sense of the word, began; I was all by myself in this dingy room.

And after a prison theft – during which I was accused of wrongdoing, but not involved – I was sent to solitary confinement and spent a year proving my innocence. Walking out to see ...

Recent research documented the deep physical and psychological toll wrought by the use of solitary confinement in United States immigration detention centers. Across the US, carceral facilities ...