Prisons Dept tells court to stop jailing MCO offenders


The nation’s prisons are becoming overcrowded with MCO offenders, warns Prisons Department director-general Zulkifli Omar, risking a Covid-19 outbreak behind bars. – AFP pic, April 4, 2020.

JAILING movement control order (MCO) offenders is causing overcrowding in prisons and making social distancing impossible, the Prisons Department has told the judiciary, asking judges to sentence offenders to community service instead.

In a report by Malaysiakini, the department expressed concern that MCO violators had not been tested for Covid-19.


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  • Just put them on House arrest

    Posted 3 years ago by Chai Hin Goh