CYBERJAYA: The Prisons Department has urged employers to give ex-prisoners a second chance by hiring them, saying that it could prevent them from going back into a life of crime.
Prisons Department deputy director-general Datuk Abdul Aziz Abdul Razak said that one in 10 ex-convicts who did not undergo parole or reintegration programmes tended to reoffend three years within being released from prison.
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