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New Delhi : The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is organising a day long workshop on “Best practices- Prison” at Manav Adhikar Bhawan here on December 21, 2018. The workshop will be chaired by Justice H L Dattu, Chairperson, NHRC.

The objective of the workshop is to have a presentation on Best Practices/ initiatives regarding Prisons and their impacts on the respective Prison Administration in the State.  The Best Practices will be compiled into a compendium on Best Practices of Prisons to be disseminated to the other states.

The participants of the workshop will be the DG( Prisons) or their representatives from the 12 participating states: Punjab, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Delhi, Telanagana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and Himachal Pradesh along with reputed NGOs and officials from Ministry of Home Affairs.

One of the functions of the NHRC under Section 12 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993, is to visit any jail or any other institutions under the control of State Government where persons are detained or lodged for the purpose of treatment, reformation or protection and to study the living conditions. The Commission has made numerous valuable recommendations to bring about not only improvements and reform in the Prison administration but also in the entire criminal justice system itself, according to an NHRC release.

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