On a lighter note, I think this is a very good approach in dealing with the over crowdness of prisons, I hope Pakistan can come up with something similar as well…
Charitable-minded Sri Lankans are being encouraged to spend a few dollars to buy freedom for a petty criminal.
The country’s new commissioner general of prisons, Rumy Marzook, has appealed to the public to help finance the release of up to 1,000 men and women. They are stuck in jail because they are too poor to pay fines as small as 500 Sri Lankan rupees ($5).
Sri Lanka’s prisons are woefully overcrowded but there are hundreds of prisoners sentenced to years of rigorous imprisonment simply because they default on court fines.