Prisoner rights body says ill inmates must be afforded medical parole like Zuma

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The SA Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights (Sapohr) has urged the correctional services department to also afford medical parole to ill prisoners in the same situation or worse off than former president Jacob Zuma.

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The decision to release Zuma on medical parole comes nearly two months after he was admitted as an inmate at the Estcourt Correctional Services facility in KwaZulu-Natal. Zuma started serving his sentence in July after he was found guilty of contempt of court for failure to comply with an order of the Constitutional Court to honour a summons to appear before the state capture inquiry.

 

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Let the rule be consistently applied, if there are prisoners who are also sick then they should be released on medical parole, we can't have a diabetic prisoner or a prisoner with hypertension, they could die at any given time and therefore they should be released.

And so they should....

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