Indian Prison Statistics

Context

This dataset contains the complete detail about the Prison and various characteristics of inmates. This will help to understand better about prison system in India.

Content

1. Details of Jail wise population of prison inmates
2. Details about the list of jails in India at the end of year 2015.
3. Jail category wise population of inmates.
4. Capacity of jails by inmate population.
5. Age group, nationality and gender wise population of inmates.
6. Religion and gender wise population of inmates.
7. Caste and gender wise population of inmates.
8. Education standards of inmates.
9. Domicile of inmates.
10. Incidence of recidivism.
11. Rehabilitation of prisoners.
12. Distribution of sentence periods of convicts in various jails by sex and age-groups.
13. Details of under trial prisoners by the type of IPC (Indian Penal Code) offences.
14. Details of convicts by the type of IPC (Indian Penal Code) offences.
15. Details of SLL (special & local law) Crime headwise distribution of inmates who convicted
16. Details of SLL (special & local law) Crime head wise distribution of inmates under trial
17. Details of educational facilities provided to prisoners.
18. Details of Jail breaks, group clashes and firing in jail (Tranquility).
19. Details of wages per day to convicts.
20. Details of Prison inmates trained under different vocational training.
21. Details of capital punishment (death sentence) and life imprisonment.
22. Details of prison inmates escaped.
23. Details of prison inmates released.
24. Details of Strength of officials
25. Details of Total Budget and Actual Expenditure during the year 2015-16.
26. Details of Budget
27. Details of Expenditure
28. Details of Expenditure on inmates
29. Details of Inmates suffering from mental ilness
30. Details of Period of detention of undertrials
31. Details of Number of women prisoners with children
32. Details of Details of inmates parole during the year
33. Details of Value of goods produced by inmates
34. Details of Number of vehicles available
35. Details of Training of Jail Officers
36. Details of Movements outside jail premises
37. Details of Details of electronic equipment used in prison

Inspiration

There are many questions about Indian prison with this dataset. Some of the interesting questions are

1. Percentage of jails over crowded. Is there any change in percentage over time?
2. How many percentage of inmates re-arrested?
3. Which state/u.t pay more wages to the inmates?
4. Which state/u.t has more capital punishment/life imprisonment inmates?
5. Inmates gender ratio per state

Acknowledgements

National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB), Govt of India has shared this dataset under Govt. Open Data License - India.
NCRB has also shared prison data on their website.

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