KUALA SELANGOR: The nation’s prisons currently face overcrowding, as the approximately 75,000 inmates nationwide surpass the capacity limit of 71,000 prisoners.
Prisons department director-general Nordin Muhamad said the number of inmates exceeded the 60 prisons’ designated capacity by 5.6%.
He said the figure did not include nearly 4,000 more prisoners undergoing rehabilitation through the compulsory attendance order, parole, and licensed release of prisoners programmes.
“The prisons department’s current success rate in rehabilitating offenders is at 82.4%, meaning that this group will not relapse into crime within a three-year period after their release,” Bernama reported him as saying.
He said this when presenting a briefing to crown prince of Selangor Tengku Amir Shah Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, who visited the Puncak Alam correctional centre.