Prisoners' Panchayat
Definition
An elected body of inmates given defined administrative functions inside the jail, modelled on the rural village panchayat, most developed at open prisons such as Rajasthan's Sanganer camp.
Related terms
- Correctional Programmes
- The structured education, vocational training, prison labour and self-governance activities a prison runs to prepare a sentenced person for release rather than...
- Prison Education
- Adult literacy classes, school-equivalency programmes such as India's National Institute of Open Schooling, and, in fewer prisons, distance-learning higher education.
- Prison Labour
- Work performed by inmates in prison industries; compulsory as part of a rigorous-imprisonment sentence, and the subject of a long-running wage dispute.
- Vocational Training
- Trade-specific instruction, such as tailoring, carpentry or welding, meant to be matched to labour-market demand outside the prison rather than to whatever...
- Wages of Prisoners
- The disputed question of what, if anything, a prisoner must be paid for compelled or voluntary work, settled in India as a...
- Participative Management
- The framework, used at Tihar Central Jail among others, of extending elected inmate representation into closed-prison administration.
Explained in these topics
- Correctional Programmes and Prison Panchayats (UGC-NET Unit VIII)
- Correctional Programmes: Education, Work, and Prisoner Self-GovernanceAn elected body of inmates, used chiefly in Indian open and semi-open prisons, that shares defined administrative and welfare functions with jail staff.