India’s prison systems have a notorious reputation, where overcrowding and violence is commonplace.

Human rights groups claim a lack of transparency has also contributed to the abuse of detainees in India’s jails and detention centres.

Now, in an attempt at reform, prison authorities in southern India are introducing inmates to poetry, literature and music… a move reminiscent of changes implemented at New Delhi’s notorious Tihar Jail – the country’s largest.

And it seems the jailhouse-reform programme in India’s south is proving equally beneficial.

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