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THE BILL ALSO PROVIDES FOR A SCHEME OF
PRE-RELEASE EMPLOYMENT RECOMMENDATION IMPRISONMENT OF OF COMPLETING HIS SENTENCE
TO APPLY, AGAIN BY ORDER OF THE GOVERNOR ACTING ON THE OF THE BOARD, TO ANY PRISONER SERVING A SENTENCE OF TWO YEARS OR MORE AND WITHIN SIX MONTHS AFTER ALLOWING FOR REMISSION.
IS ORDER
MADE
WILL
PLACED
UNDER то SIX
BE A PRISONER ON WHOM AN SUPERVISION FOR THE REMAINDER OF HIS SENTENCE, THAT IS FOR UP MONTHS.
RESIDE
WITH CONDITIONS SPECIFIED HE WILL BE REQUIRED, IN ACCORDANCE
FOR THE A HOSTEL PROVIDED IN IN A SUPERVISION ORDER, PURPOSE AND, AS FAR AS PRACTICABLE, TO BE IN EMPLOYMENT.
ΤΟ
WOULD ALSO BE UP TO FIVE
SERVICES THE COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONAL EMPOWERED TO PERMIT HIM TO BE ABSENT FROM THE HOSTEL FOR DAYS.
IT WOULD, UNDER THE BILL, BE AN OFFENCE PUNISHABLE WITH A
TO 12 MONTHS, FOR A PERSON OF $5,000 AND IMPRISONMENT FOR UP
BREACH THE TERMS RELEASED TO FAIL TO RETURN TO THE HOSTEL OR TO WHICH HE WAS ALLOWED TO BE ABSENT.
CARRIED
BE WILL SUPERVISION UNDER THE TWO SCHEMES, OFFICERS OF THE CORRECTIONAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, OR BY OTHER SPECIFIED BY THE COMMISSIONER OF CORRECTIONAL SERVICES.
FINE
SO
ON
OUT
BY
PERSONS
RELEASE UNDER AND MAKING
FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A THE BILL PROVIDES SUPERVISION BOARD FOR CONSIDERING PRISONERS' APPLICATIONS RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE GOVERNOR.
AND WILL OFFICE
THE BOARD WILL CONSIST OF NOT LESS THAN FIVE MEMBERS, BE REQUIRED TO INCLUDE A PERSON WHO HOLDS OR HAS HELD JUDICIAL (AS CHAIRMAN), A MEDICAL PRACTITIONER WITH EXPERIENCE AND OTHER
WITH PERSONS REHABILITATION OF OFFENDERS.
EXPERIENCE
OF
IN PSYCHIATRY, OR INTEREST IN THE
PRISONERS OF
WAS SCHEMES
WHO EXPECTED
WOULD TO BE MERITS
MR
SAID JEAFFRESON
THE NUMBER SUCCESSFULLY BE RELEASED UNDER THE TWO VERY SMALL AND EACH APPLICATION WOULD BE CONSIDERED ON ITS OWN BY THE RELEASE UNDER SUPERVISION BOARD.
BREACH OF
HE SAID THE BILL PROVIDES FOR SERIOUS SANCTIONS FOR
WITH THE CONDITIONS OF AN AN ORDER. "A PERSON WHO FAILS TO COMPLY
AND ORDER WILL BE GUILTY OF AN OFFENCE AND LIABLE TO A FINE OF $5,000 TO IMPRISONMENT FOR 12 MONTHS,
HE SAID.
"IF HIS ORDER IS
TERMINATED AND HE
RESULT, HE WILL FORFEIT
ANY REMISSION
RESPECT OF THAT PART OF THE SENTENCE SERVED BEFORE HIS THE ORDER," MR JEAFFRESON SAID.
A AS IS RE-IMPRISONED
THE UNDER
PRISON RULES IN RELEASE UNDER
THE BILL