New Delhi, Feb. 27 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that women prisoners cannot be shut out of open correctional institutions (OCIs or open jails) on vague "security" grounds, declaring their exclusion from such facilities to be "blatant gender discrimination" and violative of their Constitutional rights. In a far-reaching judgment aimed at ushering in structural prison reforms, a bench of justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta issued a slew of binding directions to the Centre, states and Union territories to end the systemic exclusion of women from open prisons, rationalise eligibility norms, expand infrastructure and adopt uniform national standards. "Security concerns shall generally not be made a ground to deny women prisoners acc...