Open prisons are a conceptual oxymoron. Most of them are not even open, but still prisons.

The Telangana Congress government should review prison practices for a fair and transparent system that promotes prisoners’ reintegration.

The only way to ensure successful prosecution of the police officers is to entrust the case to an independent agency with a separate trial court for the purpose located outside Telangana.

On October 11-12, the Supreme Court-appointed commission posed 160 questions to V.C. Sajjanar, the police official under whose jurisdiction the 'encounter' took place, and recorded 'chilling lies'.

The commission has been recently bringing the investigating officer’s attention to some missing/mismatching facts in the documents presented.

It appears the government needs to substantiate many of its claims and there are many omissions in the procedures to be followed in the investigation of the incident. 

Preventive detention laws have been used against the economically marginalised for years.

The Constituent Assembly debates reveal that India’s unbridled power over labour rights was originally granted to protect workers.

Nirmalakka was charged in 159 cases, but was found guilty in none. Even 12 years of captivity in Jagadalpur prison have not broken her spirit.

The spirit of these new initiatives is a departure from the previously punitive approach to a more reformative one.

The societal impulse to morally indict prisoners is unconstitutional – something the courts and people in general seem to have forgotten.