Lawyer Haniff Khatri has lauded Prisons Department director-general Zulkifli Omar for raising concerns on overcrowded prisons as hundreds are being sent to prison for violating the movement control order (MCO).

Zulkifli had proposed that violators are given community service instead but health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah has said that authorities may not be able to do so as they can't carry out community service during the partial lockdown.