Justice Minister says prisons will be more locked until elimination of coronavirus

The penitentiary institutions will be more locked until the elimination of coronavirus and the relevant plan is now being devised. According to Justice Minister Tea Tsulukiani, the plan will be announced next week.

"I want to announce today that at the beginning of the next week, we will disclose the plan first to the staff and prisoners and then to the general public. We are working on it now, which means that penitentiary establishments will be more closed to prevent the import of the infection from the outside.

This does not mean that the inmates in the so-called zone will be placed in closed facilities. However, I would advise them to implement the recommendations of the healthcare system, which implies observing distances and various other rules”, the Minister said.

According to her, the plan also implies that as few employees as possible should go home from prison.