"THREE out of every four persons, i.e. 76.1 per cent of all persons held in India's prisons are undertrials, as per the latest official data by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) in its Prison Statistics India report for 2020.
Out of India's total of 4,88,511 prisoners as on 31 December 2020, reportedly 3,71,848 persons, or 76.1 per cent of inmates were undertrials. The remaining 23 per cent (1,12,589 prisoners) were convicts and 0.7 per cent (3,590 prisoners) were detenues."
"The prisons in India had a total capacity of accommodating only around 4,03,700 inmates but on 31 December 2019, various Indian prisons registered around 4,78,600 criminals, way more than it's capacity."
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