While the city moves to redevelop the prison grounds, a Near Eastside group has started a separate project to tell former inmates' stories.

Chennai: Banging their plates on the jail cell bars all day and night, not letting other inmates sleep, Nigerian drug peddlers at the Special Prison for Women in Chennai found this to be a way to ...

The India Justice Report 2025 reveals severe gender and caste disparities in India’s justice system, with women stuck in low ranks of policing, understaffed courts, overcrowded prisons, and structural ...