Deputy Internal Security Minister Datuk Fu Ah Kiow said that the Malaysian government is looking for empty factories in Pulau Pinang, the Klang Valley and Johor to be converted into temporary prisons to house small-time criminals serving less than six months’ jail term (approximately 7,000 of 42,000 in-mates in the 28 prisons nationwide).
A rehabilitation home for girls in Batu Gajah and a block of the Kamunting detention camp in Taiping will also be converted to prisons by the end of this year.
These measures are done to ease congestions of existing prisons until the long-term plan to build and upgrade all prisons is completed.
Source: Star Online Nation "Government looking for empty factory buildings to house criminals"
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