The death toll from a blaze that tore through a jail has risen to 44, as authorities pledged to look at whether more inmates could receive rehabilitation for drug-related offences to ease chronic overcrowding in the prison system.
Wednesday’s fire at the penitentiary in Tangerang, on the outskirts of the capital Jakarta, took place in a prison block housing more than three times the number of prisoners it was designed to contain.
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