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Other 3,485 inmates have had their sentences reduced by a quarter under section 49 (1) of the Prisons Act chapter 58

Daily Monitor Tuesday April 27 2021 Advertisement The President Samia Suluhu Hassan has pardoned 5,001 prisoners who were serving various sentences in different correction facilities across the country. Of these prisoners, 1,516 have been released after a quarter of their sentence was reduced in lieu of a standard one-third reduction under the provisions of the Prisons Act chapter 58. Other 3,485 inmates have had their sentences reduced by a quarter under section 49 (1) of the Prisons Act chapter 58. According to a statement issued by the Director of Presidential Communications, Gerson Msigwa...

Tribune News ServiceAmbala, April 23 As many as 10 mobile phones were recovered from three packets, which were thrown inside the Central Jail, while another was recovered from a jail inmate in the pa

More than 120-year-old Act discriminating between prisoners, amended in Rajasthan By IANS|   Published: 17th March 2021 4:48 am IST By Archana Sharma Jaipur, March 16 : Believe it or not, the 120-year-old Act in which prisoners from backward castes were not allowed to work as cooks in Rajasthan jails’s till January 2021 has finally been amended, said prison officials. This Act, framed 120 years ago during the British regime, discriminated between prisoners on the basis of caste in delegating tasks such as cooking and cleaning in jail. Director-General (DG) Prisons, Rajasthan Rajeev Dasot s...

  Mar 14, 2021 01:31:32 PM A member of the public claims the government continues to display a lack of political will to change ingrained attitudes within the security forces. Figures released from Fiji’s Director of Public Prosecution office show that there stood 400 charges of serious crimes were laid against police officers in Fiji between May 2015 and April 2020. Of that 400, 16 charges were for rape, two for murder, nine for manslaughter, five for abduction, and more than 100 for assault. Citizen Pita Waqavonovono said with the increase of police brutality the country has received...