Beijing News, 2009-05-21
Citing several cases of abuse, some involving corrupt judges, an editorial in the Bejing News urges lawmakers and judicial administrators to reform the current system of “temporarily serving their sentence outside prison.” Unlike traditional parole, in which defendants must serve at least half their sentence in a correctional facility, there are no such requirements under the “temporary” system, which was intended only for convicts needing medical care. Now judges can directly assign defendants to temporarily serve their sentences outside prison with all most no procedural restrictions, opening the door to potential corruption. The article argues for a stricter system allowing only the seriously ill or pregnant to qualify and not permitting their time in “temporary probation” to count toward their original prison sentence.
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