Pakistan Pledges Rights-Based Prison Reforms to Reduce Incarceration

Rights-based prison reforms pledged

• Chief ministers commit to reducing unnecessary incarceration, improving infrastructure • CJP terms reforms ‘shared institutional responsibility’ • Maryam says prisons should be reflective of values, effectiveness of justice system • Afridi calls for reforms to ‘start from Adiala’ ISLAMABAD: The provinces on Thursday reaffirmed their commitment to sustained prison reforms, with all the chief ministers acknowledging that these reforms were not just an administrative necessity, but a constitut...

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