International prisoner transfer programme in the works


PETALING JAYA: The Prisons Department needs to come up with an international prisoner transfer programme to avoid prison congestion as there are about 8,000 foreigners serving jail terms in the country.

“It must be stressed that an international prisoner transfer programme is not an ex­­change programme – like, for example, a local prisoner is exchanged with a foreign one.

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