Morocco's Minister of Justice, Abdellatif Wehbe, suggested, in a first of its kind, that prisoners could buy days of sentences with money.
This Moroccan government proposal came in the context of attempts to reduce overcrowding in Moroccan prisons.

In the weekly session of the House of Representatives, the first chamber of the Moroccan parliament, to impeach the government, the Ministry of Justice revealed for the first time a proposal to pay fines ranging between 100 and 2,000 dirhams, between 10 and 200 US dollars, for each day of imprisonment for the benefit of the state.

According to Al-Arabiya.net, all this comes in the context of a new package of alternative penalties, under the umbrella of the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure, with approximately 38 articles, according to the government, touching on alternative penalties and the mechanisms for their removal.

And while these alternative penalties were identified in working for the public benefit, in the daily monetary fine, in electronic monitoring with the smart bracelet, and in restricting some rights or imposing control, remedial or rehabilitative measures.
Source: agencies