prison statistics india 2011 - National Crime Records Bureau

CHAPTER – 2
INMATE POPULATION AND OVERCROWDING IN PRISONS
An important aspect of prison
administration is the prison population that
authorities have to handle in the prisons.
One thing that comes out strikingly on the
basis of available data is that the jails are
over crowded.
Data relating to the population of
both male and female inmates are collected
from the prison authorities in order to find
the relationship in terms of
occupancy/overcrowding between the
capacity available in prisons and the actual
number of prison inmates. The occupancy
in any jail changes on daily basis due to
addition of new prisoners and release of old
ones, nevertheless, an estimate of
population of inmates at the end of the year
would serve as a good indicator to
determine the occupancy rate. The
occupancy rate defined as number of
inmates staying in jails against the
authorized capacity for 100 inmates has
been calculated to determine the 'Crowding
in Prisons'.
Table 2(A)
Capacity in Jails, Population of Inmates and Occupancy rate in States/UTs at the end of 2011
SL.
AVAILABLE
INMATE
OCCUPANCY OCCUPANCY
STATE/UT
NO.
CAPACITY POPULATION RATE# (2011) RATE# (2010)
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
1 ANDHRA PRADESH 16073 13213 82.2 79.3
2 ARUNACHAL PRADESH 56 55 98.2 101.8
3 ASSAM 7485 8203 109.6 106.9
4 BIHAR 33774 28032 83.0 89.7
5 CHHATTISGARH 5430 13918 256.3 237.0
6 GOA 395 489 123.8 115.4
7 GUJARAT 9395 11601 123.5 126.5
8 HARYANA 16049 15033 93.7 99.3
9 HIMACHAL PRADESH 1626 1607 98.8 119.1
10 JAMMU & KASHMIR 2895 2663 92.0 92.9
11 JHARKHAND 12948 16586 128.1 140.0
12 KARNATAKA 13100 12666 96.7 98.4
13 KERALA 6371 6229 97.8 130.7
14 MADHYA PRADESH 25685 32916 128.2 122.5
15 MAHARASHTRA 24656 24082 97.7 100.5
16 MANIPUR 970 647 66.7 63.7
17 MEGHALAYA 530 570 107.5 118.1
18 MIZORAM 1302 881 67.7 85.1
19 NAGALAND 1450 502 34.6 37.5
20 ODISHA 19703 12753 64.7 73.8
21 PUNJAB 11951 17821 149.1 147.6
22 RAJASTHAN 18016 18104 100.5 96.6
23 SIKKIM 207 190 91.8 100.0
24 TAMILNADU 21911 13869 63.3 66.2
25 TRIPURA 1322 899 68.0 71.9
26 UTTAR PRADESH 47048 82383 175.1 182.5
27 UTTARAKHAND 3562 3261 91.5 123.0
28 WEST BENGAL 20672 19508 94.4 90.5
TOTAL(STATES) 324582 358681 110.5 114.1
29 A & N ISLANDS 309 1119 362.1 222.7
30 CHANDIGARH 1000 626 62.6 64.0
31 D & N HAVELI 60 25 41.7 70.0
32 DAMAN & DIU 120 29 24.2 25.0
33 DELHI 6250 12124 194.0 173.7
34 LAKSHADWEEP 16 80 500.0 168.8
35 PUDUCHERRY 445 242 54.4 69.2
TOTAL(UTs) 8200 14245 173.7 154.3
TOTAL (ALL-INDIA) 332782 372926 112.1 115.1
# Occupancy Rate = Inmate population x 100
Total capacity
Occupancy rate 100 shows overcrowding in prisons.
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