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COVID-19 | Salim Bashir is alarmed by the rising number of Covid-19 cases in Kedah and Sabah prisons

Govt should look at alternatives for incarceration, or even decarceration to solve crowding problem.

CORONAVIRUS | Of the 14 local transmissions, none involve Malaysians, says Health DG.

Infection fear has led to deadly riots in Venezuela, Peru and Colombia prisons with many of these places overcrowded and unhygienic.

CORONAVIRUS | As mass testing expands in prisons, large numbers of inmates - 96 percent - showing no symptoms.

Ismail Sabri says this is to ensure sufficient space as the punishment shifts back to imprisonment.

CORONAVIRUS | To ease overcrowding in jails and protect detainees from the pandemic.

CORONAVIRUS | Citing prison conditions as risk of infection spread, it pointed to Indonesia's move to free 22,000 inmates.

CORONAVIRUS | Amid concerns of Covid-19 spreading in prison, MCO violators should be given non-custodial sentences.

CORONAVIRUS | It said the move is causing overcrowding in prisons where social distancing is 'impossible'.

UPDATED 4.45PM | CORONAVIRUS | Meanwhile,165 have been charged for violating the order, with one case sentenced to 4 months jail.

CORONAVIRUS | The date will be announced later and will also affect the Bandar Hilir Prison Museum in Malacca.

The Wende correctional facility officials say several prison officers have been quarantined following Weinstein's test result.

CORONAVIRUS | This includes visits by family members, lawyers, police, embassies and NGOs to all prisons nationwide.

The new coronavirus has infected 234 people in two prisons and top officials responsible for the outbreaks have been fired.

This is in response to the Umno MP reciting a poem outside court claiming he is a 'victim of tyranny'.