Delhi Judicial Academy to prepare manual on rights of women prisoners

The Delhi Judicial Academy will prepare a manual for the Women and Child Development (WCD) Ministry about the rights of female prisoners and for improving their condition, an official said.

The manual would also include the entitlements of children staying with their mothers in prison, a senior WCD official said.

According to law, children can to stay with their mothers in prison till they are five years old.

Asserting that the condition of prisons needs to be assessed and a manual on the rights of the women prisoners will be prepared, the official said, "The Delhi Judicial Academy will give us a manual on what should be the entitlement of women and children in prisons."