| Interviews with prisoners in holding cells at court | Male | Female | Male | Male | Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Male | Male | Female | ||
| Interview Date | 02.12.2013 | 02.12.2013 | 25.11.2013 | 25.11.2013 | 25.11.2013 | 25.11.2013 | 25.11.2013 | 25.11.2013 | 27.11.2013 | 27.11.13 | 27.11.13 | |||
| Q. No. | Questions | Comilla | Gopalgonj | Madaripur | Mymensingh | Rangpur | ||||||||
| Record number of detainees from jail | 51 people | 5 persons. | 1.
From Jail- 42 2. From Thana & Court- 8 |
32 | 80 people | 2 people | The Court Holding cell interview was done in police holding cell format. Please check police holding cell. | |||||||
| 1 | How many are represented by a lawyer? | All but 5 persons have a lawyer. | All but 1. | Most | All | None | All | Most | All | All | All | |||
| 2 | Does your lawyer appear on every occasion? Record numbers or note all - none on counting hands | No > Sometimes are present in the court, but not all the time. |
They don't know. | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Sometimes > Appear most of the time |
Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 3 | Of those of you who are not represented by a lawyer, have you been helped by anyone else? | No | No | No > In a sensitive murder case, 10 persons are captivated in the holding cell, and they have no lawyer on behalf of them for 40 days |
Not applicable | No | Not applicable | Yes > A paralegal |
No | Yes | No | |||
| 4 | How many of you have come to court on the same case before? Record numbers on counting hands | Less than 10 times. 3 people said they have come 1 time before. | Less than 10 times. 5 times. FIX BLANK. One person came only 1 time. | 45
people: less than 10 times; 4 people: 10-25 times; 1 person: 25-50 times |
Hands | Hands | 10 to 25 | 1.
8 people: 10-15 times 2. 10 people: less than 5 times 3. 9 people: less than 3 times 4. 5 people: 1 time |
10 to 25 | Less than 10 times | Less than 10 times | >10
times 60
Persons 10 to 25 times 19 Persons 25 - 50 times 1 Person |
Hands 2 persons | |
| 4a | Who has been coming the longest to court? | In every fixed date, everyone is brought before the court. | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | Months 40 person | 2-3 Months | |||||
| 4b | Count back from the longest - eg 2 years (how many), 1 year (how many) 6 months (etc) | 4 persons said 2 months. 20 persons said 6 months. 12 persons said 1 month. | 2 persons said 20 days. 2 persons said 1 month. 1 person less than 7 months. 2 persons said they will get bail today. | 7
persons-2 years. 25 persons-1 year 12 persons- 6 months |
Not applicable | |||||||||
| 4c | How many stay in the cell without appearing before the judge/magistrate? | 5 persons. | 5 persons. | 4 people answered that it happened in a few cases | In very few cases. | Present in every due date | 5 of them taken before the court | It didn't take before the magistrate | 60% | 2 persons | ||||
| 5 | How often it has happened that you were supposed to go to the court but you were not taken to the court? | Very few cases. | Very few cases. | Only 10 people were brought before the judge court, 40 people were not brought before the magistrate court. | Today, 10 people were taken before the judge and nobody else. | Didn't take | They are present in fixed date | In very few cases | Few | Very Few cases | Most 40 persons | Few | ||
| 6 | How many of you understand what happened (is to happen) today and what will happen on the next occasion? Record numbers on counting hands, or note All - None | None | 2 persons. | Few | Most | None | She understands | Few | She can understand little bit. | Most | Few | Most 60 persons | Most 2 persons | |
| 7 | How many of you are accused of bailable offences? Record numbers on counting hands, or note All - None | 5 persons. | Don't know. | Most | Most | Most | Most of the respondents do not know which offences are bailable and which are not bailable | She heard that her offence is bailable. | Most | Most 50 persons | All 2 persons | |||
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