The prison conditions all over India are in a deplorable state. Even though a prison is supposed to provide inmates with acceptable living conditions that include clean drinking water and basic hygiene, the reality is far from this.
Inmates in jail have to bear the harsh months of extreme heat in the summers and severe cold in the winters without having access to proper ventilation in summers and warm blankets in winters.
Sometimes, there is no potable drinking water either or any form of sanitation facility.
Most prisons in India also have a problem of overcrowding, which further results in management issues and often leads to conflict and violence within jails.
With a growing prison population and a lack of facilities, prisoners are also at a health risk of developing contagious diseases. Moreover, there is either minimal or no space available for prisoners to perform any form of cultural, educational, recreational or religious activities.
The Siddhartha Vashishta Charitable Trust, an NGO run by Manu Sharma, addresses living conditions in the prison and brings them to light. Having spent around eleven years in prison himself, he has faced the harsh realities of what it is like to be in prison. According to him, people in jail suffer not just physically but mentally as well.
Manu Sharma NGO proposes to use volunteers from the community to help improve the morale of the inmates and train the staff members at prisons to solve these basic issues.
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