1. Dibyendu Sarkar, India
An art work by an inmate
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2. Total Population Prison Population Rate of incarceration
11.3 billion 0.38 million 0.03 %
Total Prisons Prisoner capacity Percentage of
overcrowding
1276 0.277 million 35.7 %
Rate of Annual growth Male: Female Incarcerated
imprisonment rate in prison ratio in prison as
population population percentage of
arrested
30 per 100,000 3.34% 96:4 3.6 %
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3. percentage
1.2
0.2
31.9 Convicts
Under-trials
Detenues
Others
66.6
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4. Total Population CH Population Rate of incarceration
80 million 20,230 0.025%
Total Correctional CH capacity Percentage of
Homes overcrowding
54 20,472 Nil
Foreign nationals in Under-trial inmates as Male: Female ratio in
inmate population percentage of total CH population
inmates
12% (2407 in 20,230) 70 % 93:7
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5.  SIX TYPES OF CORRECTIONAL HOMES:
◦ Central CH (Capacity: 11457)
◦ District CH (Capacity: 5803)
◦ Special CH (Capacity: 841)
◦ Sub CH (Capacity: 1901)
◦ Women CH (Capacity: 400)
◦ Open Air CH (Capacity: 70)
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6.  CUSTODIAL FUNCTIONS
◦ Safe keep
◦ Segregation
 CORRECTIONAL FUNCTIONS
◦ Labour assignment
◦ Vocational training
◦ Culture therapy
 WELFARE FUNCTIONS
◦ Medicare
◦ Educational support
◦ Miscellaneous welfare activities
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7.  Prisoners’ Welfare Fund
 Guidelines for treatment of inmates
 Notification on Sports’ Club
 Establishing self-help groups for running
economic activities in correctional homes
 Cultural activities by the inmates
 Involving Non-Government Organizations
 Inmates’ telephony
Art Workshop Sports for children Sending children to
mainstream schools
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8.  Introduced through publication of a set of
Rules
 NGO in Fund Management Committees
 Contribution open for private sector/
corporate bodies/I-NGOs/ NGOs and
National and State Governments
 Use envisaged for educational, medicare,
sports, cultural, vocational activities
involving inmates and back home support to
families
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9.  NGO forum having participation of
NGOs
 Vocational training/ physical activities/
meditational sessions run by NGOs in
different Correctional Homes
 Annual NGO dialogue to explore
avenues of collaboration and sort out
issues
 NGO support to provide educational
facilities to inmates’ children back home
 NGO support to provide educational Computer aided literacy
programme in the correctional
facilities to children accompanying homes
inmates
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10.  Involving social actors from different cultural
fields to develop inmates’ potentials
◦ Art Workshop
Dance recital
A scene from
◦ ‘Valmiki
Dance drama
Pratibha’ –a
◦ dance drama
◦ Drama performed by
the inmates
◦ Recitation Workshop
 Cultural performances beyond the four walls
of the correctional homes
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11.  Experimentally launched in one Central
Correctional Home
 Opens up opportunity to call against pre-
determined numbers programmed against
inmates
 Token expenses
 Monitoring of calls
 Private sector participation
Telephone Booths at Dum Dum
Central Correctional Home
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12.  Self-help Groups for running
economic activities
 Going beyond wage
dominance for income earning
opportunities
 Canteen for inmates run by
the Groups
 Income distributed amongst Canteen managed by SHG
the group members formed by the inmates
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