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 White paper on crime 2009 Part2/Chapter4/Section1/1 

Section 1  Imprisonment in Penal Institutions

1 Number of persons imprisoned in penal institutions

  Fig. 2-4-1-1 shows the number of persons imprisoned in penal institutions and rate per population over the last 20 years (See Appendix 2-5 for the average daily number of persons imprisoned).

Fig. 2-4-1-1  Number of persons imprisoned in penal institutions and rate per population (1989–2008)

  The number of persons imprisoned continued increasing every year from 1993 and reached a post WWII high of 81,255 in 2006 (at the end of the year). It then started decreasing in 2007, and the number of persons imprisoned as of December 31, 2008 was 76,881 (including 964 fine defaulters in workhouses and one person detained in a Kanchi confinement house).