{"id":218382,"date":"2020-05-01T16:31:42","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=218382"},"modified":"2020-05-01T16:31:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T20:31:42","slug":"more-than-6500-prisoners-released-in-cuba-in-the-middle-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/more-than-6500-prisoners-released-in-cuba-in-the-middle-of-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 6,500 prisoners released in Cuba in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cuban authorities have released 6,579 prisoners in the midst of the <a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/tag\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">coronavirus<\/a> pandemic, which until this Thursday had left 61 dead and 1,500 positive cases on the island, where heavy penalties are applied for crimes involving the spread of epidemics and no positive cases have yet been reported in prisons.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the Criminal Court of the Cuban Supreme Court, Otto Molina, specified that in March and April 421 people who were serving provisional prison were released and will now await trial in their homes with the \u201crelevant restrictions,\u201d while another 6,158 were granted early release.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of the latter, \u201cthe Court appreciated that with the time (of the sentence) served it is not necessary to reach the end of the sentence in confinement\u201d and decided to grant parole and extra-penal licenses to the prisoners, explained Molina on Cuban state television.<\/p>\n<p>Cuba is in the limited local transmission phase of the COVID-19 and the government maintains strong measures that include the limitation of movements, the suspension of public transportation, the closure of borders, and the closure of large shopping centers, although not yet decreeing the mandatory confinement.<\/p>\n<p>The Cuban authorities assure that at the moment there are no outbreaks or cases of the disease in the island\u2019s prisons, where extreme measures have been taken to avoid contagions and isolation periods have been established for the new inmates.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"023L27RoCx\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/no-covid-19-cases-in-cuban-prisons\/\">No COVID-19 cases in Cuban prisons<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; 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