Mental health in jails
(DAWN – Editorial) THE mind can be a prison for anyone afflicted with a mental health disorder. But for the countless mentally ill prisoners languishing in Pakistani jails, there...
29 Years on Death Row, Pakistan Woman Suffers Mental Illness
(THE NEW YORK TIMES – AP) ISLAMABAD — Kanizan Bibi was 16 when she was charged with murdering her employer’s wife and five children. The police said she was...
Infected Prisoners
(DAWN – Editorial) ON Monday, the Supreme Court overturned earlier judgements made by the high courts to release under-trial prisoners in light of the coronavirus epidemic. Fearing the spread...
Sick, disabled prisoners need extra care to control COVID-19 in jails
(THE NEWS – Myra Imran) Islamabad: Sick and disabled prisoners in crowded Pakistani jails required extra healthcare as they are more vulnerable to contracting the Coronavirus because of their...
Prisoner release
(THE NEWS – Editorial) The concerns expressed by the SC regarding the issue of release of prisoners due to the corona outbreak are undoubtedly valid to some degree. Indeed,...
Opinion: Pakistan needs to quickly reduce its prison populations
(SAMAA – Asad Jamal) Pakistan’s Supreme Court has recently suspended orders given by the high courts and provincial governments that sought to send prisoners home so that coronavirus (COVID...
Prisoners in a pandemic
(THE NEWS) The finding that a prisoner at Camp Jail Lahore has tested positive for the coronavirus raises many fears. This prisoner had reached the country from Italy in...
SHRC concerned about prisoners amid virus spread
(DAWN – Staff Reporter) KARACHI: The Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has expressed grave concern for prisoners in Sindh’s jails on Wednesday. As the spread of the coronavirus pandemic...
Government urged to protect prisoners from coronavirus
(DAWN – Staff Reporter) KARACHI: As Pakistan records its seven deaths because of the Covid-19 outbreak, the rights groups on Tuesday asked the authorities to take necessary measures to...
Pakistani prisons house 77,275 inmates against authorised capacity of 57,742
(THE EXPRESS TRIBUNE – Rizwan shehzad) The federal ombudsman on Tuesday directed the provincial chief and home secretaries as well as inspectors general of jails across the country to...