{"id":54834,"date":"2018-09-25T12:45:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T07:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/?p=54834"},"modified":"2018-09-25T12:46:07","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T07:16:07","slug":"prison-reforms-sc-constitutes-former-sc-judge-headed-committee-to-suggest-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/constitutional-law-news\/supreme-court-news\/prison-reforms-sc-constitutes-former-sc-judge-headed-committee-to-suggest-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison reforms: SC constitutes former SC judge-headed committee to suggest measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to improve the conditions of jails in India, the apex court on Tuesday constituted a committee headed by former SC judge Amitava Roy to ascertain the prevailing conditions in prisons all over the country and suggest measures to improve it.<\/p>\n<p>A bench comprising Justices M B Lokur and Deepak Gupta said the committee will examine the issues in prisons including over-crowding, unnatural death of prisoners, inadequacy of prison staff and present staff not being adequately or properly trained.<\/p>\n<p>The bench was hearing a plea raising concern on various issues faced by 1382<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/topic\/prisons\"> prisons<\/a> in India.<\/p>\n<p>On the previous hearing on Aug 27, the bench had reserved its decision whether to form a committee to deal with issues relating to prison reforms across the country and suggest measures.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014India Legal Bureau <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a bid to improve the conditions of jails in India, the apex court on Tuesday constituted a committee headed by former SC judge Amitava Roy to ascertain the prevailing conditions in prisons all over the country and suggest measures to improve it. A bench comprising Justices M B Lokur and Deepak Gupta said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[64],"tags":[47145,4901,1340,20232],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/IL\/uploads\/2018\/09\/25124255\/Prison-reforms-SC-constitutes-former-SC-judge-headed-committee-to-suggest-measures.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indialegallive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}