THE Prison Department here is formulation to set up a new jail in Lahad Datu to plunge into overcrowding in a Tawau prison, pronounced Central Prison Director, Abdul Halim Mahasan.
He pronounced which a Prison Department has practical to a supervision for a square of land in Lahad Datu where a new jail is due to be built, though did not reveal any further information.
"Although you have been trying to revoke a series of prisons as well as additionally revoke a series of inmates, you cannot run away from a actuality which you have been confronting jail overcrowding.
"By environment up a new jail in Lahad Datu, you hope to soothe a overcrowding situation in a Tawau Prison which is now land over 1,400 inmates," he pronounced during a revisit by a Customs Department to a State Prison in conjunction with a World Customs Day Celebration.
He additionally pronounced which a Central Prison currently binds about 1,580 inmates, Sandakan Prison land about 790 inmates, Women's Prison land about 110 inmates, Women's Henry Gurney School (19 inmates) as well as Henry Gurney School Keningau (202 inmates).
Abdul Halim additionally pronounced which a prison's parole complement is showing an enlarge in effectiveness as a correctional institute, though is not able to eradicate tarnish between a public.
"In prison, inmates get a second chance to lead a better life as they do not just l! ay in th eir cells, counting a days until they have been released.
"The inmates have been given work, training courses, counselling sessions (religious & psychological) for them to realize their wrongs as well as have a fresh begin upon their release."
The revisit by a Customs Department lead by Deputy Customs executive Hamzah Sundang to a State Prison is partial of their month-long Customs Day Celebration (January 26 to February 26).
According to Hamzah, a revisit which enclosed a little 30 Customs officers together with multiform high ranking State officials was hold to strengthen friendship bonds between a two departments.
"We have been additionally land this revisit so which a Customs officers have been aware as well as familiarised with a Prisons Department, what they do as well as how things have been conducted here," he said.
Hamzah pronounced this in his debate after a lecture event by a Prisons Department as partial of a revisit at a Central Prison in Kepayan near here yesterday. - Sabahkini
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