Yesterday, the Thaiger wrote about a fire at an Indonesian jail that killed 41 folks. Now, the dying toll has risen to 44. Prison officers have declared that they may look into whether or not extra inmates might receive rehabilitation for drug related offences to reduce back overcrowding in prisons.
First , initially positioned at forty one lives, noticed 3 more individuals who had severe burns die in a single day, says Rika Aprianti, a spokesperson for the jail division on the Indonesian justice ministry, at present. Reuters says Wednesday’s hearth on the Tangerang penitentiary happened in a prison block that held three occasions the number it was designed to deal with. Specifically, the prison block was supposed for 38 inmates however held 122. Most of the prisoners had been incarcerated for drug associated offences.
The tragedy has kicked-off an outcry for Indonesia to rethink its stringent narcotics laws, which places a high variety of inmates in jail for drug associated offences. Indonesia’s chief safety minister Mahfud MD, says that out of the 200,000 incarcerated people throughout Indonesia, over half are imprisoned for drug expenses. Mahfud provides that these high rates necessitate a re-evaluation.
“But the victims, the users who become victims, we are going to think about whether they should all be sent to jail or not. Is it higher to rehabilitate them?”
The explanation for the hearth, while alleged to be an electrical fault, has not been revealed..