It was an evening I was never forget. An evening when dreams come true.Not Just my dreams, but the dreams of those for whom neightmares had become the only reality.It was the evening of May 17,2007. A group of twenty-four inmateso of Berhampore Central...
Not many people are aware that the most constitutional right provided by democracies across the world, which is the right to vote is denied to individuals,who on the day of elections, happen to be either in prison or in police custody in India...
Women are, generally speaking,more vulnearable to violence and crime of different kinds than men.Women in detention are more so.In most socities,they are prone to becoming victims of abuse and exploitation and to be subjected to physical and mental torture...
We acieved many 'first' since we brought out the last edition of Metamorphosis.Perhaps the more prominant of these was the historic moment when two convicts,students of our art workshop,presented on behalf of all the presioners,a peace plaque a clay sculpture...
We had been taking one step at a time...making slow but steady progress in the fight for prisoner's rights.If this true of last couple of years,in the last couple of months we took some giant leaps in the field of prison reforms in our site...
While it is the role of the Criminal Justice System to bring perpetrators of various crimes to book, it is not its responsibility to create the supportive social and survival mechanisms which usually collapse with an individual’s incarceration...
This issue is about perseverance. For a long time we nurtured a dream. Some thought it was an impossible dream. Others thought it was absurd. But we still dared to dream it. We persevered and it has now become a reality...
If I were to identify a theme for our current issue it would be "interface" that all important meeting point of the internal and external.One of the essential components of 'correction'- a team has gradually now come to be...
In this issue of Metamorphosis, the theme dealt with is empowerment, a word very close to my heart because it connotes that very idea of self-esteem which is behind the entire concept of our prison reforms
