Life Behind & Beyond Bars
Prisons@Work is a series of 6 episodes that step into Indian Society’s most hidden workplaces -the Indian Prison System. Through conversations with prison reformers and ex-convicts we explore life in prison, after prison, and unearth the complex web of justice, caste, gender, stigma and survival. We also look at possible reforms and restorative practices that could redefine the justice system.
Through first-person narratives, we examine the lived realities of incarceration from three formerly imprisoned individuals. Their stories offer a direct, unfiltered look at daily life in prison, how they navigated institutional life, power structures, and their long arc of rebuilding life afterward.
All names and identifying details have been changed to protect the speakers’ privacy.
All these three episodes are in Hindi.
Prisons@Work: Incarceration and the Indian Prison System
Prisons@Work is a series of 6 episodes that step into Indian Society’s most hidden workplaces -the Indian Prison System. Through conversations with prison reformers and ex-convicts we explore life in prison, after prison, and unearth the complex web of justice, caste, gender, stigma and survival. We also look at possible reforms and restorative practices that could redefine the justice system.
In this episode Deepak and Sujatha speak to Mohit Raj. Mohit is an Obama scholar and Ashoka Fellow and the co founder of Project Second Chance, a first of its kind, prison reform and criminal justice intervention program in India. Project Second Chance works directly with incarcerated youth between the ages of 18 and 40, and guides them to be change agents in the prison ecosystem.