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Iran has now temporarily sent home 85,000 inmates over coronavirus fears
17 Mar, 2020 08:37
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Iran’s effort to free up overcrowded prisons from non-critical inmates has seen 85,000 people going home for leave. The measure is meant to prevent an outbreak of coronavirus in the penitentiary system.
“Some 50% of those released are security-related prisoners... Also in the jails we have taken precautionary measures to confront the outbreak,” judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said, as cited by Reuters.
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