Decrim Booklet and FAQs
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According to Ramkarpal Singh, a former deputy minister in Prime Minister’s Department (Law and Institutional Reform), the number of prisoners nationwide up to September 2023 was 75,379, exceeding the prisons’ maximum capacity of 69,816. 53,072 individuals have been imprisoned for drug-related offences, making up 70.4% of all inmates in the country.
