Abolish the prisons, opines Faizan Mustafa

Hyderabad | Saturday | 28th March, 2020

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Hyderabad: Prof Faizan Mustafa, Vice Chancellor of NALSAR Law University, Hyderabad, has said that given the circumstances the best criminal reform should be to abolish the prisons. The public intellectual and law expert Mustafa was expressing his views on his YouTube channel, Legal Awareness web series. Prof Mustafa laments that Indian jails are in such poor conditions that there is nothing good of which India could be proud of. He says but for a few most of the jails have inmates more than the capacity. Giving an example, he says in Delhi jail instead of 100 prisoners, there are 153 prisoners..