In the period between 2018 to 2021, our team (while they were part of Project 39A) collaborated with Prayas (TISS Mumbai) reached out to 9570 undertrial prisoners across eight prisons in Maharashtra and facilitated release of 4504 undertrials by providing them legal representation (Programme). Together, we collected and analysed data relevant to legal aid in the criminal justice system in order to empirically substantiate their learnings from the field.
This Report drew on the experience and learnings of the Fair Trial Fellowship Programme providing legal aid to undertrials in Yerwada (Pune) and Nagpur Prisons and Prayas doing the same in Mumbai, Thane, Taloja, Byculla, Kalyan, and Latur Prisons.
Find the Executive Summary here.
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