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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has committed to building 14,000 new prison places by 2031, marking the nation's most ambitious prison construction initiative since the Victorian period and signalling a tough approach to criminal justice reform.
Malaysia's human rights commission has documented serious violations in the nation's prisons and detention depots, including assaults on inmates, degrading search procedures, and inadequate investigative responses by authorities.
The government is considering a proposal by several MPs to access closed-circuit television footage from the Taiping Prison incident that resulted in an inmate's death. Deputy Minister M. Kulasegaran supports the measure in principle but says legal complexities need resolution.