‘The staff get hush money’: the hidden scandal of rape in Indian prisons
Female prisoners are ‘supplied’ to male inmates of West Bengal jails, sexual abuse is commonplace and hundreds of children are born in prison. But the women are too scared to speak out
When Tapas Kumar Bhanja was appointed to investigate conditions in West Bengal’s overcrowded prisons in 1990, he was not prepared for what he discovered. Women in prisons were being sexually abused by male inmates, according to the now 66-year-old lawyer. Many of the survivors gave birth after the assaults.
Lucy (not her real name) was 13 when the well-to-do family she worked for as a domestic help reported her to the police, alleging theft. “It was almost 25 years ago,” says Lucy, who has a speech disability and holds up her fingers to indicate the numbers.
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