{"id":6599,"date":"2023-03-26T09:27:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T03:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6599"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:50:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:20:18","slug":"what-is-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-parole\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Parole?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About <\/strong><strong>Parole:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Parole is a system of releasing a prisoner with a <strong>suspension of the sentence<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The release is conditional, usually subject to behaviour, and requires periodic reporting to the authorities for a set period of time.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>not a right of a prisoner<\/strong> and may be denied to a prisoner even when he makes out a sufficient case.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is Furlough?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A broadly similar but subtly different concept is a furlough, which is given in the case of <strong>long-term imprisonment.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>While furlough is seen <strong>as a matter of right<\/strong>, to be granted periodically irrespective of any reason and merely to enable the prisoner to retain family and social ties,\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Furlough is given by the state, but its <strong>decision can be challenged before a court of law<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a court?<\/h3>\n<p>A court is an institution that the government sets up to settle disputes through a legal process. People come to court to resolve their disagreements.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/india\/parole-days-cannot-be-counted-as-part-of-sentence-period-top-court-8517570\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Parole days cannot be counted as part of the sentence period: Top court<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parole is a system of releasing a prisoner with a suspension of the sentence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}