New Delhi, June 17 -- The Supreme Court has proposed a nationwide mechanism for daily judicial access inside prisons, asking the Union government to explore a policy under which court-appointed judges visit jails every day to ensure that undertrial prisoners are not deprived of constitutional safeguards when they are not produced before courts. Proposing an important prison-monitoring reforms, a bench of justices Ahsanuddin Amanullah and R Mahadevan suggested that judicial officers posted in local civil courts could hold proceedings inside prison premises every day and interact with undertrial prisoners who are not otherwise required to be physically produced before courts on a particular date. "One option can be that a judicial officer posted in the local civil courts visits the concerned jail everyday and undertrials who are not required for any effective hearing before the court may be produced before the said officer, in a separate area earmarked for such proceedings, within the jail premises," said the bench. "This is for the reason that the concerned prisoner is given an opportunity to interact directly with the Court without having any fear or pressure relating to the condition under which he is being incarcerated," it underlined.P4...