Community service for offenders helps prisons reduce overcrowding

KOTA KINABALU: Community service programmes for offenders are helping prisons tackle overcrowding issues, says Prisons Department deputy director-general Datuk Ibrisam Abdul Rahman

He said the community programmes were one of the positive approaches that help the overcrowding rate of prisoners in prisons, adding that the implementation of community service programmes have also shown better rehabilitation effectiveness than serving a sentence in prison.