Token Temporary Measures to Decongest Prisons Can’t Save Inmates from COVID-19

As a COVID- era piece, the blog offers an insight into Indian criminal justice system's attempts at dealing with spread of a pandemic virus inside prison cells. The piece focuses on primary 4 measures taken by State, either as policy or upon directions of the court : a. decongestion; b. isolation of new inmates; c. in-prison COVID care centres; d. vaccination drives. Yet each of these measures remained inadequate and ineffective, according to the author.