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Out of prisons correction proposed for minor crimes

10 Oct 2021

By Pamodi Waravita Justice Minister M.U.M. Ali Sabry PC has stated that a community-based correction system would prove effective taking into consideration the proposal of correcting those who are imprisoned for less than two years within the community itself instead of imprisoning them.  Sabry had made these remarks at the Ministerial Consultative Committee on Justice Meeting held last Friday (8), according to a parliamentary press release.  “The Justice Minister was of the view that there is no point in sending people behind bars without reforming them and therefore, a community-based correction system would be a more effective method. Accordingly, possibilities of correcting those who are sentenced for less than two years within the community, without imprisoning them, was taken into consideration,” the press release noted.  He has further instructed that public views be obtained regarding the draft report “Community Based Correction System in Sri Lanka”.  “Criminal law and the notion of justice is entwined and it is important to extricate an individual into society as a responsible citizen rather than labelling them as criminals,” Parliament Assistant Secretary General (Legislative Services) Tikiri K. Jayathilake was quoted as saying.  Thus, he had proposed a two-tier via the Ministerial Committee to achieve this objective. He had said that whilst the political tier work towards the requisite reforms, the professional tier contribute their expertise towards the creation and development of the relevant reforms.  The UN Resident Co-ordinator to Sri Lanka Hanaa Singer-Hamdy, who had been present at the aforementioned meeting, had commended the reforms to the criminal justice system, and had noted that community-based correction could prevent the exposure of potentially violent and unsafe prison conditions to offenders who would then be trapped in a cyclical system of punishment.  

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