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ROLE OF JUDICIARY IN SHAPING THE REFORMATION, REHABILITATION AND SOCIAL INTEGRATION OF INMATES

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Sadhna Trivedi, Deepti Sachan

Abstract

They are required to be far away from all the influences of people because they violate the norms. Hence a rethinking on the policy and method in dealing with the problems concerned to prisoner‟s rehabilitation. The study is based on the outcome of the prison reform. By the virtue of birth no one is criminal. It is due to the impact of some social environment and other influential factors one person stepped in the dark path of crime. Even if one is considered as a criminal, no one wants to remain as criminal in their whole life. But without the intervention of some internal and external agencies, no one can return to mainstream of life from the clutches of crime. The very essential aspect is the timeframe of imprisonment. The sole purpose of imprisonment is to reform the offender. Thus the timeframe must be properly deployed to change the criminal‟s antisocial mindset and make a socially healthy mindset. Therefore, the function of the prison system has a prerequirement of proper reformative support so that ultimate purpose of atonement of the offender is served, otherwise all efforts will go in vain irrespective of the time frame

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