The Director of Communication at lower chamber of Parliament Augustine Habimana has said that the amended penal code aims at rehabilitating convicts.
Habimana was reacting to reports that reducing length of the sentences would create complacence among convicts.
“Some have singled out one item in the whole penal code that has over 700 articles, highlighting them unnecessarily but the whole idea of amending the penal code was to generally how sentences can more helpful,” Habimana has said by cell phone a few minutes ago.
Habimana said that their some sentences that took to over ten or twenty years and a person comes out of the prison not changed as expected yet he/she could be in prison for a relatively smaller period with hope to get out soon and be changed in fear to be brought in imprison again.
He also said that reducing length of sentences would save government from enormous expenditure on individuals for longer time one spends in prison.
The amended 30 years old penal code that has many changes started in 2009 as various discussions made towards the way forward of the amendment to be done.
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