Prison overcrowding: Kit Siang moots early release of non-serious offenders

CORONAVIRUS | DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang is mooting the early release of non-serious offenders in prison to ease overcrowding, amid a plea by the Prisons Department for courts not to jail those who violate the movement control order.

A Prisons Department spokesperson revealed yesterday that there are currently 73,000 prisoners being housed in spaces intended to hold 52,000 inmates....