In a recent TEDx talk, Chakraburtty, who has interacted with 30,070 prisoners lodged in closed jails
in Bihar, described prisons so overcrowded that inmates tied themselves to the bars to sleep because there was no space to lie down.
While the existing system provides for only convicted
prisoners to be kept in open prisons, Chakraburtty has also recommended extending the facility to undertrials-
who account for two in three people in prison in India today- to significantly lower overcrowding and inhuman living conditions in prisons.