IndiaSpend | Thursday July 13, 2017
At the end of 2015, 17,834 women were in Indian prisons, according to data from the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB).
Of these, 66% were undertrials, 32% were convicts and 1% were detenues and other prisoners, the data show. Foreign inmates accounted for 1.1% (199) of India’s women prisoners.
Between 2011 and 2015, the number of women impriso...
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