Madhavi Gautam, Assistant Professor, Asian Law College, Noida.
ABSTRACT
For ages, the prisoners of our nation have faced drastic discrimination, torture, and inhuman treatment. This research paper is to throw some light on the problems faced by these prisoners and how our judiciary has interpreted various fundamental rights of our Constitution such as Article-21 to protect the prisoners. Article-21 provides a bunch of other rights which still need to be unboxed properly. Although our judiciary has been acting as a watchdog for the protection of these prisoners, still, there’s a need for the implementation of some strict and mandatory laws which can be availed by the prisoners to live their life with liberty which is their basic human right. Various judicial precedents have made it clear that the prisoners although are behind the bars but can still avail their basic human rights if all the three pillars of our constitution work harmoniously.
“Inmates in prisons are still citizens and should not be denied of their basic human rights as other citizens”
- UNOCD's Samarth Pathak
