The Future Is Female: Prison Service — Advancing Welfare in Prisons
How does the incarceration of women affect their families, particularly children? Is there support available for them? On this episode of #TheFutureIsFemale Melisa Idris speaks to Dr Kausalya Devi Sathoo, former Deputy Commissioner of the Malaysian Prisons Department, about how women in prison service can make for a more just and humane criminal justice system.
Sun Jul 07 2024
Graduates behind Iron Curtains
The desire to continue their studies never faded, despite realising they would spend almost their entire youth behind the Iron Curtains.
Thu Oct 19 2023
Malaysia aims to cut prison occupancy by two-thirds in eight years
Malaysian prison facilities at present hold about 76,000 inmates against their capacity of 66,000.
Wed Oct 26 2022
Parliament: 13 PLKN camps converted into satellite prisons
Ismail Mohamed said the satellite prisons were to isolate new inmates before being transferred to main prisons.
Tue Sep 28 2021
About 68,000 convicts in 42 prisons nationwide
Although the latest number of prison inmates exceeded the prescribed capacity of 52,000, the prisons were able to accommodate them currently.
Sun Aug 09 2020
Selangor Sultan commutes death sentence of civil servant to life imprisonment
Malaysian Prisons Department Security and Intelligence director Datuk Jamaludin Saad said Joe was fortunate to be the only death row prisoner to be selected to apply for a lesser sentence.
Sat Aug 13 2016