KUALA LUMPUR: The proposed House Arrest Bill will apply to remanded detainees awaiting trial, Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said adding that the intention of the Bill is to address prisons overcrowding.
The Home Minister said currently there are 28,000 detainees under remand, while prisons only have capacity for 74,000 inmates.
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