{"id":7929,"date":"2020-02-06T10:09:35","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T10:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=7929"},"modified":"2020-02-06T10:09:36","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T10:09:36","slug":"supreme-court-panel-recommends-several-prison-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/supreme-court-panel-recommends-several-prison-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court panel recommends several prison reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Supreme Court of India has appointed Justice Amitava Roy\n(retd.) Committee has given recommendations to reform prisons. The Court\nappointed the Committee in 2018 to examine the various problems plaguing\nprisons, from overcrowding to lack of legal advice to convicts to issues of\nremission and parole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A total of 1,341 prisons were functional in India as on 30th\nNovember, 2018. The total population of prisoners in India was 4.68 lakh\nagainst total sanctioned strength of 3.83 lakh. From 2016 to 2018, the total\nprison population in India has increased by 8.2% against an increase of 0.7% in\nthe prison sanctioned capacity. Seven states, namely Uttar Pradesh, Madhya\nPradesh, Chattisgarh, Uttarakhand, Sikkim, Meghalaya and Delhi have an\noccupancy rate of 150%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court of India has appointed Justice Amitava Roy (retd.) Committee has given recommendations to reform prisons. The Court appointed the Committee in 2018 to examine the various problems plaguing prisons, from overcrowding to lack of legal advice to convicts to issues of remission and parole. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 A total of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":7930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[906],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-february-2020"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7931,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions\/7931"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}