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The Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, connected Monday, passed the A.P. Prisons and Correctional Services Bill, 2026, giving effect to reforms initiated by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA), including structural changes and the adoption of technological advancements successful the medication of prisons.
Making a connection connected the Bill, Home Minister V. Anitha said it would incorporated each the changes experienced successful situation medication implicit the past 125 years successful the areas of doctrine of reforms and their management.
The Bill would assistance guarantee technological advancements successful situation medication and present stringent punishments for the usage of mobile phones successful prisons.
Besides, the Bill would facilitate much steps for the payment of the unit of prisons and the prisoners.
Ms. Anitha pointed retired that the prisons successful Andhra Pradesh were mostly governed by the Prisons Act of 1894 and the Prisoners Act, 1900.
She observed that the Acts framed implicit 100 years agone were chiefly punitive successful nature.
As galore societal changes took spot successful the 125 years since those laws were enacted, and determination has been a paradigm displacement successful the concepts of quality rights, a displacement successful the attack to transgression and punishment, and designation of the rights of prisoners successful enactment with planetary treaties and agreements during the period, the authorities felt the request to revise the laws accordingly.
Also, those laws person not kept gait with modern evolutionary concepts of reform, rehabilitation and reintegration of prisoners into society.
Taking the full gamut of things into consideration, including the growing use of caller technological tools successful prison information (like biometric systems, CCTV surveillance, scanning and tracing devices, vigor frequence recognition devices and video conferencing), and obsolescence of the Transfer of Prisoners Act, 1950, the MoHA framed the Model Prisons and Correctional Services Act, 2023 to alteration the States to instrumentality the provisions with indispensable modifications and additions, due to the fact that the medication of prisons were nether the State List arsenic per the Constitution.
Hence, the Andhra Pradesh government’s determination to enact the caller instrumentality titled AP Prisons and Correctional Services Act, 2026 arsenic per the draught instrumentality prepared by the MoHA.
The caller authorities projected to repeal the existing Prisons Act of 1894, the Prisoners Act, 1900 and the Transfer of Prisoners Act, 1950.
Ms. Anitha said greater accent was being fixed to bringing astir a behavioral and intelligence alteration successful situation inmates done assorted payment measures.
“The authorities has planned to acceptable up peculiar Anganwadi centres successful prisons to instrumentality owed attraction of the pistillate inmates and their children,” she said.
Open-air prisons were acceptable up to facilitate the intelligence well-being of inmates and supply them opportunities to prosecute successful agriculture and different vocational trades.
Regarding the remission of prisoners, she said the authorities has ever been sympathetic to the plight of those languishing successful jails for agelong periods.
