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District police chief says tracker dogs are also mobilised.

Inmates with potential will be trained as educators to guide fellow inmates.

His 6-year sentence for rioting, assaulting police was reduced.

PM's law advisor wants govt to consider alternative non-custodial sanctions.

The cost for 317,674 prisoners, from 2016 to 2020, was RM4.95b.

He had been imprisoned since 2014.

It says 60pct of those in prison are incarcerated for non-violent, minor, drug-related offences.

'Degree of civilisation in society revealed by entering its prisons'.

The families of the 10 inmates said the abuse also extended to beatings that went on into the night.

Nine other prominent activists receive jail time or suspended sentences over 2019 pro-democracy protests.

Each satellite prison can house 400 to 500 convicts, says Prisons commissioner Ajidin Salleh.

Compulsory Attendance Order (CAO) to be extended to detainees serving sentences of up to three years.

The 'Book Drive for Prisoners' campaign has been a resounding success, with over 300,000 books collected.

Dungun Correctional Centre and Marang Prison will be locked down until Feb 10.

This comes as 40 inmates and three personnel were detected as Covid-19 positive since Jan 23.

The bipartisan parliamentary group says such a move will also create a logistics and resources nightmare.

The EMCO for other areas at the facility and its staff quarters will end tomorrow as scheduled.

The group points out that pandemic has shown that health in prisons and public health is interrelated.