As the Supreme Court’s own research demonstrates, prisons remain one of the last institutional spaces where caste operates openly and administratively.

Over half of India's jails are overcrowded, with 176 prisons holding inmates at four times their sanctioned capacity, according to the India Justice Report 2025. Two prisons in Delhi's Tihar Jail ...

Alok Kumar on Tuesday inspected the Mangaluru District Jail as part of a statewide review of prison security and reform measures. Speaking to reporters, Kumar said all prisons in Karnataka would be ...

Alok Kumar has said that jail staff across the state had intensified checks over the previous 72 hours, leading to the seizure of prohibited items. He also said that inmates involved in violent ...

Karnatakas new Director General of Prisons has spoken about introducing AI-based intrusion detection systems. This has ...

DGP Prisons Alok Kumar is on official inspection duty in Mangaluru, reviewing prison administration, security measures and inmate welfare systems.