Summary:
AGRA: An RTI query has revealed that in the last five years more than 1800 prisoners died in Uttar Pradesh . In 8 jails of Agra range, 261 inmates died in this period. Of these, 409 prisoners died in 2016, followed by 399 in 2017. Over five times more prisoners were in Lalitpur and Moradabad district jails, according to the assessment made in September 2018. This means the authorities took no effective action to mitigate the inhuman conditions prisoners had to live in..