Cambodia to release 10,000 prisoners

[geovalin]

PHNOM PENH: About 10,000 of Cambodia's prisoners will be freed as part of the country's anti-prison overcrowding campaign. Interior Minister Sar Kheng said the bulk of the inmates had mostly served their sentences and would continue to be monitored after their release to prevent repeat offences.

 

He said the government had been working to tackle overcrowding in prisons, which has aroused concerns on human rights issues and puts a burden on the state to spend huge sums of money for the inmates. He said the authorities would be tasked with monitoring the nearly 10,000 inmates after their release.

 

read more https://www.nst.com.my/world/region/2020/05/596488/cambodia-release-10000-prisoners

[Bender Rodriguez]

wait, they were there for a reason, right... and now let's see how the crime numbers go up...

 

if you were in jail for personal soft drug use, you should not have been put in jail in the first place

[Burma Bill]

On 5/31/2020 at 9:51 AM, Bender Rodriguez said:

if you were in jail for personal soft drug use, you should not have been put in jail in the first place

Why not, if Cambodian Criminal Law states that a prison sentence could be imposed for the possession and use of "soft" drugs?