What’s life like in jail?

Brut India

Drugs? Weapons? Tihar's jailor reveals how inmates navigate daily life behind bars.  📹: Raj Shamani

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00:00We will keep a blade in the nose, around the gums, in the hair.

00:06So does anyone get black, dark, without sunlight, any such punishment?

00:11No, not like that. This is only in movies.

00:13If a criminal is there, what is done to him inside?

00:16Now someone is in jail, what does he do from morning to evening?

00:19See, his daily routine is that we count his head at 6 in the morning.

00:25We analog him with the cell and first we will pray.

00:29Then we do yoga sessions for some people.

00:32We also do games for the young age for their physical activities.

00:36And then the people who go for court protection,

00:41who have daily dates, they go for court protection.

00:44And the rest of the people who are left, they stay in jail.

00:48And we keep them open in the open till about 11-11.30.

00:54And around 12 o'clock, we count their heads again and lock them up.

00:58And at 3 o'clock, we open them again.

01:00We count their heads again.

01:02We will open them at 3 o'clock and till 6-6.30, till sunlight,

01:07we will give them water, food, everything.

01:10And around 7 o'clock, we lock them up again.

01:15So how many types of criminals and cells are there in a jail?

01:21Like no one is allowed to see the sunlight,

01:25no one is allowed to close the cell.

01:27It happens outside, right?

01:32Like I told you, the high security criminals are different.

01:38Their limitations are a little more.

01:40And the rest are normal, routine ones.

01:43So I would say that hardly 5-7% are high security criminals.

01:50In your criminal activities, like TADA, Makoka,

01:55hardly 10% people are there.

01:57For them, we have to be a little extra visual.

02:00And the rest are normal.

02:02So does anyone get black, dark, without sunlight, any such punishment?

02:07No, it's not like that.

02:08This is only in films.

02:09And the TV is installed inside the jail and it is shown in movies,

02:13VIP treatment, does this happen?

02:16No, see the TV is an entertainment.

02:19And those who have a good track record in jail,

02:22who do not cause trouble in jail, live in discipline,

02:26and there is no such case on them outside.

02:29Like I told you, there is no TADA, there is no Makoka,

02:32there is no dacoity, there is no murder.

02:34So in those cases, we provide TV.

02:37There are many reasons behind this.

02:39The more we keep them busy, the more occupied we will keep them.

02:43All are criminals.

02:45So the empty mind is the house of the devil.

02:48So the more we keep them busy in activities,

02:51the calmer they remain.

02:53And it is also easy for us to run the jail.

02:55And this also does not come in things like depression.

02:57In jail, a lot of things are smuggled or not?

02:59Is it in Tihar?

03:00Yes, smuggling is also inside Tihar.

03:02And a lot of…

03:04What all smuggles are there?

03:06These are some drugs, drugs, in the body cavity.

03:11Like you see smuggling at airports,

03:13they will swallow it by putting it in polythene.

03:16And then either they vomit or excrete it.

03:19They take it out through the potty and then consume it.

03:22And there was an incident just now,

03:25we were talking about the phone.

03:27There is a Chinese model, it is such a big phone.

03:31This small?

03:32This small.

03:33Okay.

03:34It will only fit in your ear, it will be this small.

03:36Khechada something is a company.

03:38So there is a habitual offender.

03:42He has taken out 3-4 phones.

03:45And something went wrong inside.

03:48So we had to get him admitted.

03:50We took out the phone from his stomach

03:52after the surgery.

03:55We will keep the blade inside the nose.

03:57How will the blade come inside the nose?

03:59The surgical blade.

04:01Like many times when we go to the hospital,

04:04we steal from there.

04:06We will keep it inside the nose.

04:08We will keep the blade around the gums.

04:11We keep it in the hair.

04:13It will be very difficult to catch it.

04:15How will you get it inside the nose?

04:17There will be no guns, no knives.

04:19Blades, drugs, just this.

04:22Phone.

04:23Nothing else.

04:25His thoughts were here and his needs were also here.

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