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Reiterating the call for prison reforms, the Court said that reforms are necessary for creating a better environment and prison culture to ensure the prisoners enjoy their right to dignified life under Article 21 of the Constitution.
States and Union Territories have been directed to revise and change the prison manuals to end caste-based allotment of work.
Madras High Court said that, while dealing with the issue involved in this public interest litigation, the following words of the South African anti-apartheid activist, Nelson Mandela resonate in their mind – “No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones”.