Suhakam visiting the Pulau Penang remand centre that uses the bucket system.
PETALING JAYA: The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) has urged the government to abolish the “bucket system” still being practised in two prisons and a rehabilitation centre in Malaysia.
In this system, prisoners have to urinate and defecate in buckets or portable units in their cells, Suhakam said in its 2018 annual report.
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