Undertrial Prisoner
Definition
A person held in custody while awaiting or undergoing trial, not yet convicted, a category that forms the majority of the prison population in several jurisdictions including India.
Related terms
- Custodial Death
- A death occurring while a person is in police or judicial custody, tracked separately in official statistics because it signals possible failures...
- Nelson Mandela Rules
- The United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, revised and renamed by the UN General Assembly in December 2015,...
- Overcrowding
- A prison population that exceeds its officially sanctioned or design capacity, usually expressed as an occupancy percentage or ratio of inmates to...
- Correctional Understaffing
- A shortfall in the sanctioned strength of prison staff, particularly custodial, medical, and correctional (welfare and vocational) cadres, relative to the population...
- Deliberate Indifference
- Also called 'willful blindness' or 'conscious avoidance' in some jurisdictions: the doctrine that a defendant cannot escape knowledge of a fact by...
- Dietary Scale
- An official schedule specifying the quantity, calorie content, and nutritional composition of food a prison must serve, often varying by labour classification,...
- Prison Privatisation
- The transfer of prison construction, management, or specific services such as food and healthcare to private for-profit contractors, ranging from full-facility operation...
Explained in these topics
- Challenges in Correctional AdministrationA person held in custody while an investigation or trial against them is pending, and who has not been convicted of the offence for which they are detained.
- Prison Conditions: Accommodation, Food, and Healthcare Standards