Overseas Pakistani Legal & Allied Services (Oplas.legal) – Prisoner Release program
No money, no freedom: Pending fines make release from prisons a distant reality.
It envisages provision of required financial support to poor persons who are in prisons and unable to afford the penalty or the bail amount. This will enable poor prisoners, majority of whom belong to socially disadvantaged or marginalized groups with lower education and income level, to get out of prison.
Despite having done their time, some prisoners continue to languish in jails across Punjab, due to not paying their requisite fines, hoping against hope that one day some philanthropist organization will free them of their ordeal.
As per data available for year 2022, in 43 jails across the province, 80 prisoners, who have served their entire sentences, collectively owe Rs 207.998 million and will remain incarcerated until they can pay the fines associated with their crimes. 58 of the prisoners have served time for offences against the human body and the remainder 22 have served time for drug related crimes – their ages ranging from 20-years-old to 75-years-old. Overseas Pakistani Legal & Allied Services (Oplas.legal) committed to help and pay 10% of profit for fines to get release aged and vulnerable prisoners and also appeal other overseas Pakistanis to contribute for these good deeds and causes.