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Reddy
President
All India Prison Officers Association
09849904733 / 09440060055
Email:kvreddydsp@yahoo.com
It is a fact that, unmarried men of all ages are more likely than
married men, to seek the services of prostitutes. A study revealed that
most of the visitors are from middle-class or lower middle class families
only.
The tension of sex deals young and old, spinsters and bachelor, rich
and poor alike (unmarried women).
Prostitutions in India
K.V.Reddy
President
All India Prison Officers Association
09849904733 / 09440060055
Email:kvreddydsp@yahoo.com
DEATH SENTENCE
Capital punishment is the most ancient and by its very nature the
most cruel of all. It must have originated in the primitive society as
reaction to murder and similar grave offences. Jesus Christ repudiated all
sense of vengeance. He would have all sinners including criminals
reformed rather than annihilated. Death sentence seams vindictive in
modern society.
This argument is, however, easily assailable. After all, how can
society in the present conditions of its knowledge ascertain who is going
to revert to crime and who is not?
The murder by passion is likely to repeat his crime than the thief or
burglar. As a matter of fact, except professional murderers, who are
negligibly few, murderers, if spared the noose would really not commit
similar crime again.
This argument looks formidable enough in view of the fact that life
is considered to be the most precious and dearest possession. Life, is the
birth right of all human beings. We cannot take whatever we cannot give.
After all, we have not yet perfected our machinery of providing proper
justice, so that, we cannot count upon court pronouncements as infallible.
“To err is human & to Forgive is divine”. Jurisprudence also needs
constant scrutiny and revision.
Social conditions have greatly changed, since, the time when this
form of punishment was considered absolutely indispensable. Police
protection has become much more efficient and investigation, both in
method and thoroughness has advanced a great deal. Criminals are not
pursued more relentlessly and probably more effectively than before. It is
now possible to choose from a greater variety of penalties and apply the
most suited to the individual concerned. So far, as protection from
ravages of these criminals, if spared, goes, it is now within the bounds of
possible attainment to segregate them so that they can’t do any more
injury.
No doubt, the Supreme Court has laid down that the death sentence
is within the ambit of constitution, but it is an issue upon which the
moralist and jurist and Human rights Activists are never likely to agree.
Reformists have always been and are of the view that capital punishment
is inhuman, obnoxious and dastardly.
In, India, no doubt, the death sentence has not yet been abolished
but the Legislature as well as the judiciary have shown its aversion
towards the execution in no uncertain terms.
After the amendment of Sec 367 Cr.P.C. 1898, and enactment of the
new Criminal Procedure 1973, the court has to state the special reasons
for awarding sentence of death, in case of offences, which are also
punishable with lesser sentence of imprisonment.
Numerous examples are not wanting where and when the extreme
penalty of death has not lowered crime rates in countries where such a
drastic punishment is prevalent. It also needs careful consideration on
the fact that most of the dependents of condemned prisoners take to
leading the life of criminals as they are deprived of their only bread-
winner, protector and guardian for leading a normal life as any other
peace-loving and law abiding citizen.
Considering all the loopholes and debating over the pros and cons
for the extreme punishment of hanging by the noose, it would be
worthwhile to do away with such a mode of inhuman penalty and provide
the prisoner some succour for reformation by abolishing this scourge
altogether and reduce it to the reasonable and tolerable extent.
“Death is a necessary and inevitable end and will come when it will
come,” said Shakespeare, and so let us not hasten it through unsanctified
hands of humans, howsoever high and mighty they may be. ‘Better late
than never’ to do away with such a ghastly act.
K.V.Reddy
President
All India Prison Officers Association
09849904733 / 09440060055
Email:kvreddydsp@yahoo.com
Prison is one of the isolated intake center, not only for the entire
criminal justice system, but also an abode of first or last resort for a host
of disguised health, Welfare and social problem cases.
What the prison staff has to do? The prison staff has to deal with
violent, difficult, dangerous, hardcore, aggressive, sophisticated, political
influential, insane etc types of prisoners.
A famous adage says “Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron
bars the cage, for minds quiet and innocent take that for a hermitage”.
Prisoners are human beings and the security men to protect them are also
humans.
The higher-ups want to impose their orders on the prison staff and
tell them to follow the rules scrupulously. At the same time they are
unmindful of the fact that these orders have to be carried out by human
beings of different dispositions and certainly not mechanically or by a
robot.
Infact, the prisons are so over crowded that their population is more
than thrice the authorized accommodation, whereas the staff remains far
below the requirement.
The staff allotted for watch and ward duties is 18 Warders and 7
Head Warders for 76 prisoners. Though, the figure remain at an average
of 350 prisoners, the authorities concerned never bothered to increase
the staff strength accordingly.
One can well imagine the stress and strain on the staff, to keep the
prisoners safe and provide them security. Certainly, this situation needs
an in-depth thinking and planning.
Prison staff are the only isolated staff in the world, with whom no
well meaning person likes to come close. Nobody wants them, but all we
need them to work. No doubt that, those working in prisons, think that,
they might have committed a great sin in their previous birth, to get a job
to guard prisoners.
We want them to over work and still not want to pay them
considerably. We do not pay decent or mentable salary to them, despite
asking them to be sincere, honest and scrupulously efficient.
Without solving the basic needs and problems of the staff, there is
no reasoning in providing mental detectors, Walkie Talkies, Closed Circuit
TVs, Arms and Ammunitions to support the security needs.
The job of jail staff is difficult fully of hazards and personal risks, and
is unpleasant in nature, bereft of glamour or dignity.
The jail staff are virtually prisoners of duty without any holidays or
freedom. They are expected to maintain good physique and be physically
fit to be able to work, round the clock!
The Police handle criminals hardly for a few days, whereas the jail
staff have to handle them till eternity or the prisoners set free by the
courts of law.
The long pending, unimplemented request of the jail staff has been
and is that they should be paid salaries and allowances on par with the
Police Department. Which is a legitimate request and needs to be
implemented forthwith.
Security is the primary but not the sole function of prison system.