The Covid-19 pandemic has become a frightening national disaster for prisoners, because the prison's overcapacity conditions provide opportunities for the transmission of the Covid-19 virus, so the government issued a policy of releasing prisoners through assimilation. In addition, the Covid-19 assimilation policy has raised public concerns about the increase in criminal acts during the pandemic carried out by assimilated prisoners. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the

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... assimilation program could be effective in preventing the transmission of Covid-19 and the impact of providing assimilation for prisoners in terms of increasing crime in the city of Medan. The research method used is normative juridical and empirical juridical. The results of this research on the assimilation of COVID-19 are an attempt by the government to break the Covid-19 chain in prisons. created because of the prison's overcapacity. This policy has been reviewed and is considered effective in achieving the target to reduce the spread of Covid-19. The impact of releasing assimilated prisoners is a boon to prisoners and does not have the effect of increasing crime. Crimes committed by prisoners of assimilation are only 1%.