As a result, inmates wait over two hours every morning to access the facilities.
On the one hand, the prison manual says prisoners must arise at 5:30 a.m.; on the other, the All India Committee on Jail Reforms recommends a toilet-prisoner ratio of 1:6. With the jail in compliance with neither, inmates wake up hours earlier just to use the toilets.
One former inmate, who was released in July, told TNIE that it was a daily ordeal for all the inmates of the prison. "When I would wake up, there would be at least 30 people in my block already waiting in line for hours to use the toilet," he said.
This story is from the December 31, 2024 edition of The New Indian Express Vellore.
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