Newsletter| When students at the University of the Free State discovered that a number of recently released convicts were going to be moving into their street, they swung into action and stopped the department of correctional services’ plans
UFS students foil correctional services’ plan to house ex-convicts 1.6km away from campus
Last week the students were furious about the department’s decision to house six parolees at 17 Scholtz Street in Universitas, Bloemfontein, down the road from the university. Mthombeni said last month the department advertised a tender for a halfway house for parolees in Bloemfontein.A student who alerted City Press to the department’s plans alleged that some students were renting rooms on the same property where parolees were due to move in.
A third student said having parolees living among them would pose a threat to students who walk home from campus at night. Mthombeni said the parolees concerned did not have family support systems and could not be released into their homes.He added that the department would no longer place parolees on the property after learning that students opposed the move.
Mthombeni said the parolees would have taken part in various rehabilitation programmes drafted by experts, psychologists and religious leaders, which would help them to curb the chances of reoffending by examining the reasons they committed crime.
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