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Prison overcrowding: Kit Siang moots early release of non-serious offenders
Published:  Apr 5, 2020 11:00 AM
Updated: 3:27 AM

CORONAVIRUS | DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang is mooting the early release of non-serious offenders in prison to ease overcrowding, amid a plea by the Prisons Department for courts not to jail those who violate the movement control order.

A Prisons Department spokesperson revealed yesterday that there are currently 73,000 prisoners being housed in spaces intended to hold 52,000 inmates....


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