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By K. C. Vijayan
Jailed priest Joachim Kang currently serving time for misappropriating church funds, could be freed soon on the home detention scheme.
And he already has a job waiting for him.
Law firm Colin Ng & Partners, in the first move of its kind here, sought High Court approval on Thursday morning to hire Mr Kang, 59, to work in their office if he is placed on the scheme.
Justice Judith Prakash will hear the application.
The firm is a strong supporter of the Prison Yellow Ribbon Project, a job placement scheme to reintegrate ex-inmates into the community on their release.
Mr Kang, who has already served more than four years of his 7 1/2- year jail term for misappropriating $5.1 million in church funds while he was parish priest at the Church of St Teresa in Kampong Bahru, is expected to serve the remaining nine months of his sentence on the home detention scheme.
For good behaviour he would have been given a one- third remission of his jail term.
Under the scheme, an offender is tagged and has to remain indoors at a named location like his home, among other conditions. Selected offenders are picked based on good behaviour and other criteria, like holding a job while on the scheme.
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