Graph 6.1 – Male and female remandees who were not queried about police assault
upon admission to prison31
100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
ACP
ARP
BATR
BRP
P
CRP
58%
32%
25%
29%
Women 60%
13%
43%
27%
Men
JRP KGRP KRP MCP
NMR
NRP
P
PCP WCP
27% 46%
65%
32%
28%
43%
46%
37%
35%
0
0
50%
88%
0
35%
0
0
41%
33%
34%
Men
Women
GRP
The quantitative data reveals that from the total male respondents, 49% of male respondents
were asked whether they were assaulted by the police during admission to prison and 44%
respondents were not queried by the prison authorities. From the total female sample, 52%
stated they were queried about police assault and 38% were not. From the male remandee
sample, 55% stated they were asked, while only 19% of the male PTA remandees stated they
were queried about police assault. From the female remandee sample, 46% stated they were
inquired about police assault.
It should be noted that in closed prisons, work camps and open prison camps, where
convicted prisoners are processed for admission, this question may not be asked, since
convicted prisoners would be transferred from a remand prison or from a closed prison,
rather than from the custody of the police. For instance, it was noted this is rarely done in
work camps such as HWC and WWC since work camps are prisons to which persons are
admitted from police custody but are transferred from other prisons.32 However, the fact
that an inmate is transferred from another prison, instead of police custody, does not
preclude the fact that the inmate may have been assaulted prior to being transferred. In that
regard, by not inquiring from new entrants to the camp if they have been assaulted, a time
stamp is not placed on the injuries of the inmate to distinguish the injury marks that they
were bearing before their admission to the new prison.
31
There are no female remandees in CRP, MCP, KGRP, NMRP do not house female remandees. WCP does not house
male remandees. Note that all prisons used for across prisons comparison are remand prisons.
32
Prisons of Direct Admission are prisons which prisoners are directly admitted to from courts. Prisoners enter Work
Camps after having been detained in another prison. It is a mere transfer from one prison to another.
43