A Study of Right to Mental Health of Prisoners in India: Legal Intricacies and Concerns

Shivam Kumar

doi:10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i04.4418

A Study of Right to Mental Health of Prisoners in India: Legal Intricacies and Concerns

Author(s)	Shivam Kumar
Country	India
Abstract	Since the foundation of the United Nations at the conclusion of the Second World War, the issue of human rights protection has been persistently addressed in numerous international human rights documents and conventions. Human rights are, in a nutshell, the fundamental, multifaceted, and inalienable rights that primarily evolved from notions of self-respect. They are innate to all humans from birth and are freely accessible to everyone regardless of religion, caste, color, sex, gender, ethnicity, etc. Hence by virtue of this pervasive norm, human rights are also available even to the least dignified members of our society who usually remain detained in prisons. But it has been witnessed quite often that because of the physical and mental torture which the prisoners suffer at the hands of the prison officials and due to the poor prison health infrastructure their Mental Health care needs which is an important facet of Right to well-being and health is being violated continuously as a result of which many prisoners commit suicides and further become incompetent to live a healthy and dignified life whenever they are released from prisons. Prisons exemplify an inhuman cycle of psychological disorders and human rights violations. Due to the dearth of any mental support inside prisons, this situation often leads to deterioration of mental health of prisoners which can cause serious impairments and disabilities. In India, prison-based mental health services are in a very primitive level. As a result, mental health legislation can serve as a valuable weapon for protecting the rights of detained persons suffering from a mental condition; yet, mental health regulations in India continue to fall short of addressing the mental health requirements of the prison population.
Keywords	mental health, prisons, human rights, mental illness, prisoners, Mental Health Professionals.
Field	Sociology > Administration / Law / Management
Published In	Volume 5, Issue 4, July-August 2023
Published On	2023-07-17
Cite This	A Study of Right to Mental Health of Prisoners in India: Legal Intricacies and Concerns - Shivam Kumar - IJFMR Volume 5, Issue 4, July-August 2023. DOI 10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i04.4418
DOI	https://doi.org/10.36948/ijfmr.2023.v05i04.4418
Short DOI	https://doi.org/gshm9c

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