A STUDY ON THE RIGHTS OF THE PRISONERS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE CONTEMPORARY UNDER-TRIAL PRISONERS OF ASSAM

Prisoners' rights is a very novel concept in international arena. From the dawn of the society and State system, the prisoners had been treated as criminal. Punitive punishment and inhuman behaviours were obvious to them. Till the mid of the 20th century, people were not even aware about the rights of the prisoners as human beings. But with the advent of the Human Rights norms across the globe, the notion of rights of the prisoners has come up with wider connotation in recent years. The issue of the rights of the under-trial prisoners has also attained much interest from the international communities. This study tends to scrutinize the rights of the under-trial prisoners of Assam on the basis of the data collected from the prisons of Assam