חוק לתיקון פקודת בתי הסוהר (מס' 67 והוראת שעה), התשפ"ה-2024Law to amend the Prisons Ordinance (No. 67 and temporary provision), 2024 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

On 7 November 2018, the Law to Amend the Prisons Ordinance (No. 54 and Temporary Provision), 2018, was published as one of the responses to the ruling of the Supreme Court in HCJ 1892/14 Association for Civil Rights in Israel v. Minister of Public Security, in which it was determined that the living space of prisoners in prisons must be increased, by expanding the periods of administrative release set out in the Prisons Ordinance. The administrative release mechanism provides that the Prisons Commissioner shall order the release of prisoners before the end of their prison term, provided they have served at least half of their term, in order to ease overcrowding in prisons, in accordance with the periods set by law. The expansion at that time did not apply to security prisoners, and subsequently further changes were made, under which it was determined, as a temporary provision, that security prisoners would not be entitled to administrative release at all, and various restrictions were also established regarding prisoners convicted of sex offenses and violent offenses. Under Amendment No. 67, the validity period of the temporary provision regulating the extended administrative release periods was extended until 31 December 2025. In addition, it was determined that the provision stating that security prisoners are not entitled to administrative release would become a permanent provision. It was further determined that the incarceration capacity standard, meaning the number of prisoners beyond which administrative release must be applied, would remain at 14,500 incarceration spaces until 30 June 2025.

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