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Improving Prisons in India
Kiran Bedi converted Tihar jail into a place of reformation - an ashram
"I found myself very involved, concerned, committed, communicative."
Kiran Bedi was the first woman to join the Indian Police Service in 1972.
She went on to become Delhi's Inspector-General of Prisons and was in charge of the notorious Tihar jail which is home to some 9,000 inmates.
Kiran Bedi's goal has been to pull the prisoners out of their hopelessness, a task which she argues had produced some radical results and which she says has been augmented by the fact that she is a woman.
