Christmas amnesty: 19 prisoners celebrate premature freedom in Saxony-Anhalt!

Christmas amnesty: 19 prisoners celebrate premature freedom in Saxony-Anhalt!

Magdeburg, Deutschland - in Saxony-Anhalt, a total of 19 prisoners were released from custody prematurely on the occasion of the Christmas festival. According to information from the Ministry of Justice, these prisoners, who should have been released regularly between the end of November 2024 and early January 2025, benefited from a so -called Christmas amnesty. This measure led to the fact that 277 days in prison were not executed by December 4, as reported. However, the exact figures are temporarily, since the Ministry of Justice wants to take a comprehensive balance by the end of January 2025. So it could be that further layoffs will take place at short notice.

The pardon applies to prisoners whose detention continues without a previous disciplinary measures and attempts to escape until the date of discharge. Prisoners in whom another sentence threatens or who cannot ensure their accommodation and their livelihood after dismissal are excluded from this regulation. Comparable regulations on the Christmas amnesty also exist in other federal states, where, for example, almost 100 prisoners will benefit from this measure in Berlin and around 250 in North Rhine-Westphalia. href = "https://www.n-tv.de/regionales/sachsen-anhalt/19-haeftlinge-profitten-von-weihnachtamnestie-article25421131.html"> n-tv informed.

The Christmas amnesty is a traditional approach to make it easier for prisoners to return to society and give them the opportunity to spend the holidays with their families. In Saxony-Anhalt, 1,472 people are currently in custody, and the Ministry of Justice sees the amnesty as a humanitarian gesture that is supposed to give hope to prisoners.