Volume 38, Number 9 · May 16, 1991
India's Awful Prisons
By Aryeh Neier, David J. Rothman
India has strong claims to being the world's largest democracy. It has genuinely free elections and these have twice turned the once-dominant Congress party out of office. Its press is exceptionally outspoken and its judiciary, especially in the higher courts, is aggressively independent. Moreover, a variety of private and government agencies promote social welfare not only through traditional relief activities but by bringing lawsuits on behalf of the poor.
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