Abstract
Prison is a place for rehabilitation of offenders in every country of the world. The present study has tried to explore the present-day situation of the prison system of Pakistan and discuss its overcrowding condition in all four provinces. There are total 120 prisons in the country which hold authorized space for not more than 57,712 prisoners, but the number of inmates is 77,275, which is far away from the authorized space. This congested prison system not only creates hurdles in rehabilitation of prisoners but makes them more criminal by mixing of low and high frequency offenders. It also leads to various health and behavioral problems. Rehabilitation is only possible if there is balance in authorized and available prisoners in the prisons. The present article has come up with some viable suggestion for concerned authorities that can better perform their duty in eradication of this problem. The authors discussed the role of parole and probation officers in the elimination of these numbers in prison. The majority of the prisoners in our prisons are under-trail, thus the role of the judiciary has also been explored in balancing the incarceration ratio in prisons. Keywords: Prison System, Overcrowded Prisons, Parole and Probation, Judiciary, Courts, Pakistan
Highlights
A prisoner is a person who commits an offence and gets proper and lawful punishment from the state’s justice system to keep him/her in prison (Harigovind, 2013)
The number of incarcerated is doubled than the authorized capacity. This overcrowding is basically in violation of Standard Minimum Rules (SMR), but they still kept much of the prisoners in a single barrack
About 64 percent of prisoners are under-trial, which is considered a huge amount, and courts have failed to conclude their cases. This overcrowding has an effect on the rehabilitation of the inmate and on the burden on the national economy as well
Summary
A prisoner is a person who commits an offence and gets proper and lawful punishment from the state’s justice system to keep him/her in prison (Harigovind, 2013). Prison is a place where offenders are kept legally as a punishment for their wrong doing. It is called a correctional place where offenders are held in confinement while either convicted or awaiting trial. It is normally surrounded by walls, fencing and other so many geographical features or barriers like security cameras, security lighting, electrified fencing, armed guarding towers, concertina wires, secured main gates, motion sensors, dogs and roving patrols for the purpose to prevent from escaping (Hanser, 2012; McShane & Williams, 2004).
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