The spreading of the coronavirus in India’s notoriously crowded prisons has prompted authorities to impose jail lockdowns and release thousands of pretrial detainees on parole.
In this Wednesday, April 29, 2020, photo, a Muslim priest in protective gear offers funeral prayers for a Central Reserve Police Force personnel who died from the COVID-19 coronavirus before his burial, at a graveyard in New Delhi, India. The spreading of the coronavirus among members of India’s national paramilitary and several outbreaks in notoriously crowded prisons has brought fore the danger of the pandemic extending to country’s crowded facilities.
On Thursday, authorities locked down Nagpur Central Jail in the coastal state of Maharashtra, among the Indian states worst-hit by the pandemic. It was the eighth prison in the state to be locked down. The move came after 19 inmates in Indore Central Jail in central Madhya Pradesh state tested positive for the virus on Tuesday. Around 250 others who came in contact with them were shifted to a temporary jail.
Health experts, however, fear that crowded facilities such as prisons can prove deadly, threatening the lives of detainees and guards, as well as the outside population. Dhanuka said the combination of a low health care budget, a shortage of doctors and “horrible hygiene facilities” has created ideal conditions for the coronavirus to spread in Indian prisons. “There is an urgent need to decongest them,” she said.
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