Prisoners Are Too ‘Victims’ of the Criminal Justice System. Can They Have an Idea of ‘Fair Access to Justice’?

Abstract

Injustice to society is antithetic to social order. The strength of the criminal justice system comes from a cluster of police, prison and court. This article portrays the work of providing free access to socio-legal aid and socio-legal counselling services, to the marginalized undertrial prisoners who had been imprisoned for years despite the ‘due process of law’ and the lack of proper legal representation. Thus, they are too ‘victims’ of this poor criminal justice system. The prime objective of the paper is to create awareness about the free socio-legal aid services and to advocate how prisoners are too victims. The paper broadly scrutinizes the issues, problems and ill effects of the criminal justice system. Additionally, it also limns solutions that had been practically implemented and had successively brought out affirmative results and implications.