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Model Prisons Act 2023
May 20 , 2023
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- The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has prepared the ‘Model Prisons Act 2023’.
- It will replace a British-era law to overhaul the prison administration that will focus on the reformation and rehabilitation of inmates.
- The Prisons Act of 1894 is a pre-independence era Act and is almost 130-years-old.
- Two other related laws — The Prisoners Act, 1900 and The Transfer of Prisoners Act, 1950 are also decades-old.
- Prisons in the country and ‘persons detained therein’ are a state subject in India.
- State governments and Union Territory Administrations by adopting this act in their jurisdictions with such modifications as they may consider necessary.
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