A ‘win-win-win’ situation for prisons, inmates and employers


Iwaki is looking to hire more parolees through JPM’s CSI programme.

“WE want to achieve the prison’s goal of two-thirds being out of prison by 2030, working outside, ” says Osman Lehan, deputy director of the parole and community service division of the Prisons Department Malaysia (JPM).

“We are committed to localising our skilled workers and reducing our foreign workers, ” says Hiroyuki Iwaki, managing director of Panasonic Appliances Air-Condi-tioning Malaysia.

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