Discuss the Right of women prisoners in India.
Pre-detention rules
Women should not be called to the police station for investigation and allinvestigations should be carried out in the presence of a relative of the accused or her lawyer or a lady staff member. Women in police custody should invariably be under the charge of women police officials. A separate place with proper facilities should be provided on court premises for women prisoners awaiting production before presiding magistrates. Bail should be liberally granted to women under-trial prisoners. The Probation of Offenders Act should be extensively used for the benefit of women offenders.
Separate Institution for women inmates
Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners provides for separate institution for the female inmates. It further clarifies that in an institution for both men and women, the part of the institution set aside for women shall be under the authority of a responsible woman officer who shall have the custody of the keys of that part of the institution. No male member of the staff shal l be allowed to enter the part of the institution set aside for women unless accompanied by a woman officer. Women prisoners shall be attended upon and supervised by women officers only.1 Model Prison Manual also states about separate institution for the w omen prisoners. It says that the State Government shall establish separate prisons for women offenders. Till separate prisons for women are established, both male and female inmates can be confined in the same prison on the condition that female offenders are to be kept in a strictly secluded female enclosure. Such enclosure should be, to the extent possible, independent in terms of infrastructural set up.2 According to the prison Manual, the women prisoners should be classified and kept separately as under
:(i) Under trial prisoners shall be kept completely separated from convicted offenders,even when their number is small.
(ii) Habitual prisoners shall be separated from casual offenders
(iii) Habitual offenders, prostitutes and brothel keepers must also be confined sep
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