This Is What 5 Years In Jail REALLY Means

21 Oct 2014 by Jasmine Stone in Crime, oscar pistorius, Politics

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The news of Oscar getting a 5-year prison sentence may have the public divided on what he should and shouldn’t have gotten, but the Department of Justice has decided to clear up any confusion about what it all actually means.

The department’s spokesperson Mthunzi Mhaga took to Facebook to clarify the sentencing:

Five years in terms of [Section] 276 of the Criminal Procedure Act means the accused serves one-sixth of the sentence, which is 10 months.

And an offender or inmate can be considered for placement under correctional supervision which is processed by correctional services.

For killing Reeva Steenkamp. Pistorius was sentenced to five years in prison and found guilty of culpable homicide. For discharging a firearm at Tasha’s restaurant in January 2013, he was sentenced to three years in jail, suspended for five years.

Both sentences would run concurrently.

Check out the full story on News24.

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