Why the release of 19,000 prisoners is a good thing
The government’s decision to release thousands of low-risk offenders due to Covid-19 pressures in SA’s prisons met with mixed reactions. Many saw this as contradictory to the punitive, rather than restorative, response that is being applied through the criminalisation of the lockdown laws. We are concerned that this may discredit the very notion of restorative justice.
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