Hon Deputy
Chairperson, it is indeed true that the inmates suffer with the stigma that they were jailed in society. It almost looks like a double punishment because there is also a misunderstanding in society that if you have a criminal record, you cannot be employed anywhere. There is no law stating that you cannot be employed if you were jailed. Companies and various policies maybe in government state that if you were in prison, you can't be employed for various reasons.
These are things society needs to review. Society needs to give these offenders a second chance because if they are not given a second chance, it also affects their future outlook on life.
The other part is that, while they ... Even in our Department of Justice, the other challenge is that some of them have sexual offences that place them in the registrar of offenders who we cannot really ... This is a difficult category of offenders that you cannot take out because the risk of them doing the same kind of offense is very high. So, we are also looking at the registrar and the process of expungement of some of the criminal records to help some of the inmates. But with sexual offences, it is very difficult because of the reasons I have alluded to earlier on. I think society has to welcome and help the offenders. Thank you.
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