President Cyril Ramaphosa has authorised the consideration of parole for selective low-risk offenders amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
selective low-risk offenders amid the Minister of correctional services Ronald Lamola elaborated on the president’s announcement onHere are five key points from the briefing:
Only low-risk qualifying sentence offenders who will reach their minimum sentence period in the next five years will be considered.This process will reduce overcrowding in prisons by 12.15%.If parolees display behaviour that breaches the law, their parole will be revoked and they will be reincarcerated.
Minister Ronald Lamola highlighted that this parole will be conditional and that the process will allow for better ventilation in prisons and space to prepare quarantine sites for prisoners who are possibly infected with the coronavirus.
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