LETTER: Criminals have more rights
Uproar after English convicts were let out of jail to be with their families over the Christmas holidays
09 January 2020 - 20:26
So our president, in his wisdom, releases about 51,000 prisoners, commuting their sentences as a goodwill gesture. God alone knows what their crimes were, yet we hardly hear any objections, let alone a revolt from any sectors of society.
In England, about 1,100 inmates were let out of prison for six days to be with their families during the Christmas holidays and then had to return to prison. And there the whole population is in uproar. ..
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