prison statistics india 2011 - National Crime Records Bureau

CHAPTER - 3
TYPES OF PRISON INMATES
Prison inmates lodged in various
jails are categorised as Convicts,
Undertrials and Detenues. The percentage
share of Convicts, Undertrials and
Detenues inmates was reported as 34.5%,
64.7% & 0.7% respectively at the end of
2011.
Convicts (1,28,592)
Uttar Pradesh accounted for the
highest number of convicted prisoners
(28,051) at the end of 2011 among the
States & UTs. Other States which have
reported considerably large number of
convicts were Madhya Pradesh (15,956),
Maharashtra (7,952), Punjab (7,526),
Haryana (6,529), Rajasthan (6,159), West
Bengal (5,660), Chhattisgarh (5,630),
Tamil Nadu (5,200), Andhra Pradesh
(4,638), Bihar (4,594) and Gujarat (4,504)
(Table-3.1).
The State/UT wise distribution of
convicts lodged in different jails is
presented in Table 3.1. Central Jails
accommodated more than 2/3rd of
convicted prisoners in Chhattisgarh
(97.0%), Karnataka (96.5%), Tamil Nadu
(95.3%), Jharkhand (93.5%), Delhi
(91.4%), Maharashtra and Andhra
Pradesh (83.4% each), Goa (81.9%),
Kerala (80.2%), Gujarat (80.1%),
Rajasthan (74.7%), Madhya Pradesh
(74.3%) and Punjab (71.3%) at the end of
the year 2011.
District Jails of Uttar Pradesh
(15,307), Haryana (5,322), Madhya
Pradesh (3,039), Assam (1,738), Punjab
(1,566), Odisha (1,474) and Bihar (1,361)
catered to a large number of convicted
prisoners.
The number of convicts in subjails
was higher in Madhya Pradesh
(1,045) and Odisha (1,041).
Inspite of having only 1 Borstal
School each in Punjab and Haryana, the
maximum convicts were reported in
Punjab (123) and Haryana (86).
The Open Jails located in
Maharashtra have lodged 782 of convicts
followed by Rajasthan (557), Kerala (308),
Andhra Pradesh (279) and Uttarakhand
(215).
The highest number of convicts
lodged in Special Jails were reported in
Bihar (722) followed by Uttar Pradesh
(400), Odisha (231) and West Bengal
(124).
The State/UT-wise, Jail-wise and
Gender-wise information on different type of
prison inmates are presented in Table-3.5
to Table 3.12. The Central Jails
accommodated higher number of female
convicts in the States of Maharashtra (383),
Madhya Pradesh (304), Punjab (247),
Chhattisgarh (242), Karnataka (187),
Gujarat (173), West Bengal (152) and
Jharkhand (133) (Table-3.5). 570 female
convicts were lodged in district jails of Uttar
Pradesh followed by Haryana (180) and
Madhya Pradesh (138) (Table-3.6).
299 out of 1383 women convicts
were reported from Uttar Pradesh followed
by Rajasthan (211), Tamil Nadu (175),
Andhra Pradesh (165) and West Bengal
(152) in women jails. Delhi is the only UT
having one exclusive women jail and 116
convicts were lodged in it (Table-
3.8/Table-3.1). Out of 1,28,592 convicted
prisoners, number of convict inmates
lodged in Central Jails, District Jails, Sub
Jails, Open Jails, Women Jails, Special
Jails, Borstal Jails and Other Jails are
83329, 36064, 3269, 2652, 1383, 1643,
231 and 21 respectively at the end of
2011. (Table-3.1).
Undertrials (2,41,200)
Detailed information on Undertrials
lodged in different jails of States and UTs is
given in Table-3.2. The maximum of
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