The Assistant Undersecretary for Correctional Institutions Affairs and Sentences Enforcement Department at the Ministry of Interior, Major-General Talal Ma’arafi, said an electronic surveillance device will be placed on prisoners who have been sentenced to less than three years in prison and allowed to serve time from inside their homes.
Major-General Ma’arafi said this will be done in coordination with the Public Prosecution and that the device will be able to track the movement of the prisoner around the clock.
He stressed the convict must be fully committed to remain within the permissible area and must not move to any other place, his personal phone must remain open 24/7, and in the event of illness he must take approval to go to the Correctional Institution Hospital, and in this case his movement will be tracked from his residence to the hospital and back home.
Major-General Ma’arafi indicated the convict must give a pledge not to use any jamming device inside his residence and not tamper with the bracelet or try to remove or damage it.
The Al-Anba daily said this falls within the efforts of the Ministry of Interior to provide humanitarian services to prisoners upon directives of Interior Minister Sheikh Thamer Al Ali, and follow up of the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Interior Sheikh Faisal Al-Nawaf.