Correctional Services boss Arthur Fraser appears to have skipped a step to authorise the former president’s medical parole. (see graphic of these medical conditions below)
Former President Jacob Zuma had to have one or more of 23 specific medical conditions to be granted medical parole and this condition had to have been confirmed by a medical advisory parole board to secure his get-out-of-jail-free card.
Medical parole is granted if the offender is terminally ill or suffers from one of the conditions set out in the graphic, if the risk of reoffending is low, and if there are appropriate post-release conditions for the inmate’s supervision, care and treatment. This application must have been approved and recommended by the Estcourt prisons boss and then submitted to a Medical Parole Advisory Board to recommend the release of the inmate on medical parole.
Zuma was jailed for being in contempt of court, and the judgment which sent him to prison for 15 months was taken to a rescission hearing. The Constitutional Court has not ruled on the application for rescission of its entire judgment. Correctional Services Department spokesperson Singabakho Nxumalo did not respond to five requests for information and comment from the. A source in the Ministry of Justice and Correctional Services said all the steps for medical parole had been adhered to.
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