Rehabilitation still a distant dream for inmates in Karachi’s overcrowded prisons

(GEO – Yasal Munim) 

KARACHI: Overspilling with sewage and inmates, the prisons in Pakistan do little for the rehabilitation of prisoners.
Pakistani prisons house 84,287 inmates in jails that only have the capacity to hold 53,744, according to Justice Project Pakistan, a human rights firm which provides pro-bono legal advice, representation and investigative services to the most vulnerable prisoners facing the harshest punishments.

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