Women, children and the elderly have been prioritised on the list of those to be released, followed by offenders with shorter sentences.
“With the total inmate population of 156000, an outbreak in DCS facilities would be catastrophic. Some of the correctional facilities are more than 100% overpopulated and, as a consequence, it will be difficult to address, manage and prevent the spread of Covid-19 within them.” Nxumalo said the population reduction in prisons would help create an enabling environment to confront Covid-19.
“The tragedy is the prison department couldn’t smoothly proceed with that process because their systems are and remain dysfunctional,” said Bhudu. “The special remission by the president was not fair and tottered on unfair discrimination and contradicts the Chapter 2: Bill of Rights - Section 9. The point is also made that previous presidents never categorised crimes when special remissions were announced.”“Inmates have been in permanent lockdown.
SaturdayStar They SHOULD NOT be allowed parole !!! How does it make sense to a supposed group of intelligent leaders to Free CONVICTED CRIMINALS, and at then at same time to arrest Law-Abiding citizens!!!!
SaturdayStar Imagine the internal squabbles going on between the various vested interests trying to get their own people onto that list 😂😂
SaturdayStar Can't see why they get paroled whilst most of us are still under house arrest ...
SaturdayStar Wait for the shit to hit the fan first then?
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