The SA Prisoners Organisation for Human Rights 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.
The department of correctional services said: “Medical parole placement for Mr Zuma means he will complete the remainder of the sentence in the system of community corrections, whereby he must comply with a specific set of conditions and will be subjected to supervision until his sentence expires. 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.
“Needless to say, Sapohr hopes this particular incident would afford other less fortunate prisoners, who are in similar or even worse medical circumstances, the same treatment.
So again it is ok to be a criminal, as long as you are 'ill'...
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