Internalizing International Human Rights Standards on the Prison Reforms in India: A Critical Analysis

Abstract

Prison existed with the human civilization to treat the prisoners according to the law for the wrong done by him. In every democratic society, prison serves as a correctional method in the criminal justice system. Prison institutions were historically the detention rooms in secure parts of castles or city towers to detain prisoners awaiting trials. Prison implies any place used permanently or temporarily under the general or special orders of a State government for the detention of prisoners, under Section 417 of Criminal Procedure Code 1973 which also includes all land and buildings thereto.