to a prison ward at the Tihar jail, New Delhi, April 26, 2012.This week, India Real Time presents an in-depth look at the country’s prison and custody system.It is a system that still carries many attributes of its origins in British-run colonial India,?and?gives a high degree of discretion to how state governments apply the penal code and who ends up behind bars, whether serving prison sentences, or in temporary army or police custody.Experts note that the national government, over decades, hasn’t funded the expansion of the prison system to meet the increasing ranks of prisoners. In part, those ranks have increased?because India’s court system is backlogged with?65% of India’s 240,000 people in jail?yet to face a verdict in court, according to government data. They also point to allegations of abuse in army custody, which the army denies.? In four chapters this week, India Real Time will examine different aspects of life under custody, as well as attempts to improve it. They include the experience of those facing trial as well as efforts being made to promote rehabilitation over punishment.MUMBAI, India –?When Arun Ferreira went to prison in 2007,toms outlet, his son was only two. Today, they are reunited, and a tide of private anguish has at last begun to roll back and wash away.“My family didn’t tell him that I was in jail, they told him I was away on business for five years,” Mr,discount toms shoes. Ferreira says.“Today, my son still doesn’t believe it. Recently, he saw a picture of Nelson Mandela somewhere. I explained who he was, and then I mentioned [what happened to me], and he thought I was fibbing.”On an unusually sunny afternoon during monsoon season in the residential neighborhood of Bandra, Mr. Ferreira?is gracious and funny as we sit in a local coffee shop to discuss his experience in jail.?Mr. Ferreira was arrested under the auspices that he was a Maoist rebel, planning to blow up the Deekshabhoomi Complex, a monument?in the town of Nagpur, where the Dalit icon Ambedkar is believed to have embraced Buddhism for the first time,toms shoes sale. Mr. Ferreira spent most of the following roughly four years and a half years?in Nagpur’s Central Jail.The Communist Party of India (Maoist), are also known as Naxalites, a reference to the West Bengal town of Naxalbari, where their movement began. Started as a left wing political group in the 1940s, in the 1960s they launched an armed struggle against the Indian government, which they have been violently opposing ever since.Their largest support base comes from local tribes who seek to retain their land resisting industrial interests. In 2006, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh famously described Naxalism as “the single biggest internal security challenge ever faced by our country. Members of the?group?could not be reached.Mr. Ferreira was charged with attacking a police station, firing on police, and booked under the Unlawful Activities Act of 2004, a law created to bolster security against possible terrorist attacks.Mr. Ferreira claims he was held for organizing slum Related articles:

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