Using Legal Leniency Measures Helps Reduce Prison Population

Zanjan Province's Judiciary Chief, stressing the need to make maximum use of legal capacities to reduce prison population, said: Judges must master laws and regulations and use leniency mechanisms and alternatives to imprisonment to prevent unnecessary admissions to prison.

The Chief of Justice of Zanjan Province emphasized the necessity of maximum use of legal capacities to reduce the criminal population of prisons, and said: Judges should prevent unnecessary entry of people into prisons by mastering the laws and regulations and using the institutions of friendship and alternative punishments of imprisonment.