Beyond Bars: Prison Conditions, Rehabilitation, and the Case for Reform in Bangladesh – part 1 of 2
Bangladesh’s prison system is in a state of protracted crisis, where the aspiration to correct and rehabilitate is consistently overwhelmed by the daily reality of overcrowding, inadequate infrastructure, and a legal architecture rooted in a colonial-era Prisons Act of 1894. A meaningful shift has recently begun, signalled by the symbolic and substantive renaming of the…
