Prison Department Yerawada Pune

The ‘Prison System’ Formulated in India in the pre -independence period was a corollary of the British Judicial System. In the year 1860, a simple code of rules was framed for the first time for the governance of jails, which was followed by the ‘‘Goal Rules of 1866’’. The jail conference of 1892 made some recommendations for improving the Jail Administration in the country. The Prisons Act (IX of 1894) was passed as a result of the recommendations made by this conference. This Act introduced some radical changes in Jail Administration, radical with reference to the conditions then obtaining (obtainable in Jails and the methods of dealing with the criminals in those days in the Jails in India).