Shrinking Cells

Prisons in Indonesia are overcrowded. The government must think of ways to send drug addicts to institutions other than jail.

July 8, 2008

JUSTICE & Human Rights Minister, Andi Mattalata, finally took a “pragmatic” step. He issued a stipulation that a suspect sentenced to less than a year in prison would be entitled to “be free on parole.” In this way, a prisoner who has been detained for five months and is then sentenced to a few years in prison, for example, would not need to stay in prison. What matters is that the inmate must always report his whereabouts to the authorit

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