Prisoner rehabilitation the holistic way to go


KAJANG: In an effort to ease overcrowding in prisons, the Prisons Department is aiming to have two-thirds of its detainees undergo community rehabilitation by 2030.

Prisons Department commissioner-general Datuk Nordin Muhamad said the initiative, which began in 2008, comprised the parole system, Compulsory Attendance Order (PKW), inmate re-integration programme and licensed inmate release, among others.

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