People who have been wrongly incarcerated are “left to their devices without any hope of reintegration into the society or rehabilitation since the best years of their life have been spent behind bars, invisible behind the high prison walls”, the Delhi High Court has said. “There is at present in our country no statutory or legal scheme for compensating those who are wrongfully incarcerated. The instances of those being acquitted by the High Court or the Supreme Court after many years of imprisonment are not infrequent. The observation came while dealing with three wide issues which had come up while hearing a criminal appeal. He had pointed out that there are 32 states in the USA including District of Columbia (DC) which have enacted laws that provide monetary and non-monetary compensation to people wrongfully incarcerated.

Source: dna December 03, 2017 08:31 UTC