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Archipelago 1 year ago
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Govt to build new penitentiary in Southeast Aceh after viral jailbreak
Mashudi revealed that the conditions at the Kutacane correctional facility were dire, with overcrowding pushing the prison to operate at 300 percent capacity. Designed to hold just 85 inmates, the facility was home to nearly 370 before the jailbreak.
Indonesia 4 years ago
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Comprehensive reforms needed to tackle prison overcrowding: Activists
Activists are calling on the government to introduce comprehensive prison reform measures to end overcrowding in Indonesia’s correction facilities, including by exploring alternative schemes for the rehabilitation of drug offenders.
National 7 years ago
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'Punishment reform' needed to lower prison population in Indonesia
The latest draft of the amendment includes a range of alternative forms of punishment, including convict supervision, fines, community service, imprisonment in installments as well as punishment under customary law. These alternative forms of punishment are expected to save the government hundreds of millions of rupiah.
National 7 years ago
Prison overcrowding serves in favor of IS militants
According to the National Police, the prison riot that killed five officers and led to a more than 30-hour standoff between terror inmates and security forces at a detention center located in the Mobile Brigade headquarters (Mako Brimob) in Depok, West Java, was triggered by a “trivial matter”.
