JAKARTA - As many as 2,185 prisoners in North Sumatra received special remissions for the 2020 Christmas celebration. Of this number, 151 people will be released on Friday, December 25.

"Prisoners who received special remission for Christmas this year were 2,034 people who received partial special remissions. Meanwhile, those who received special remissions were all or free as many as 151 people," said the Head of Sub Division of Public Relations, Reform, Bureaucracy and Information Technology Regional Office of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham) North Sumatra. Bambang Suhendra, in Medan, as reported by Antara, Wednesday, December 23.

He said that the prisoners who received remissions this Christmas were part of the 4,517 Christian convicts.

"They get a sentence varying from 15 days to 2 months," he explained.

Meanwhile, based on regulations, prisoners who receive special remission for Christmas 2020 consist of 1,690 general criminal convicts, 20 prisoners in PP 28 of 2006 and 475 prisoners in cases regulated by PP 99/2012.

The number of prisoners and detention centers in North Sumatra until December 8, 2020 is 27,676 people.

"The details are as many as 20,123 male prisoners, 546 female prisoners. Then 6,812 male prisoners and 195 female prisoners," he said.


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