During the first lockdown, a large number of offenders were released early from prison or did not have to serve their sentences in various countries.
So far, 2020News reports from Germany, the USA, Argentina and Brazil are available. The journalist Gaby Weber has informed the Corona Committee that a number of those released from prison in the turmoil of the lockdown immediately relapsed and committed new crimes.
The argument that they did not want to produce Corona hotspots in the prisons is surprising, because this reasoning would have meant that old people’s homes would have had to be closed down.
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