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Women inmate count rising fast; prisons aren’t ready for them

Rose a 32-year-old sex worker who was arrested in a police raid was a bundle of nerves when advocate Sunita Salsingikar first met her in a prison in Maharashtra. “She was a simple, quiet woman... she ...
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For many Indian women jail sets them free. ‘Home had become a prison’

Seema Azad’s Unsilenced and From Phansi Yard by activist-lawyer Sudha Bharadwaj were the topic of discussion at Delhi's Press Club last week. Both books were born of incarceration.
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Overcrowding in Maharashtra jails puts children of women prisoners at risk: Report

A A report released by iProbono India states that overcrowding in Maharashtra jails puts children of women prisoners at risk, ...