Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sachchidananda Hirananda Vatsyayan (7 March 1911 – 4 April 1987), popularly known by his pen name Agyeya (also transliterated Ajneya, meaning 'the unknowable'), was an Indian writer, poet, novelist, literary critic, journalist, translator and revolutionary in Hindi language. He pioneered modern trends in Hindi poetry, as well as in fiction ...
The Cellular Jail, also known as 'Kālā Pānī' (transl. 'Black Water'), was a British colonial prison in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.The prison was used by the colonial government of India for the purpose of exiling criminals and political prisoners.
A 19th-century jail room at a Pennsylvania museum. A prison, [a] also known as a jail, [b] gaol, [c] penitentiary, detention center, [d] correction center, correctional facility, remand center, hoosegow, or slammer, is a facility where people are imprisoned under the authority of the state, usually as punishment for various crimes.
Prisons, and their administration, is a state subject covered by item 4 under the State List in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India.The management and administration of prisons falls exclusively in the domain of the State governments, and is governed by the Prisons Act, 1894 and the Prison manuals of the respective state governments.
The other two prison complexes are at Rohini and Mandoli with one and six central prisons respectively. [4] Tihar prison complex is located in Janakpuri, approximately 3 km from Tihar village in West Delhi. The prison is styled as a correctional institution. Its main objective is to convert its inmates into ordinary members of society by ...
The title of two popular Hindi films – Chachi 420 (in English: Trickster Aunt, a 1997 remake of Mrs. Doubtfire) and Shri 420 (in English: Mr. 420, a 1955 film) – are direct references to Section 420 of the IPC.
In 2005, the Wisconsin Department of Corrections banned "foreign language activities" at its prisons for security reasons. [1] However, the department reversed its decision later in the year when it realized that worship services conducted by volunteers, including a Spanish-language Bible study group, were being canceled.
This is due to the lack of available work opportunities within the prison system. According to a 2011 report by the Hindustan Times, the majority of convicts sentenced to "rigorous imprisonment" in India do not engage in work as most prisons in the country lack sufficient demand for prison labor. Specifically, the report indicates that 99% of ...