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.