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Electronic tags and 'tougher' unpaid work will reduce prison overcrowding, govt claims
AOL 10 Aug 2025
Increases in the use of electronic tagging and "toughening up" unpaid work will help reduce prison overcrowding, according to the Ministry of Justice ... will help reduce prison overcrowding.
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Most Brits want all foreign criminals deported and back building mega-jails to deal with prison overcrowding
The Sun 08 Aug 2025
Two-thirds back building mega-jails on remote Scottish islands to deal with prison overcrowding ... Nine in ten would rather new prisons be built than see softer sentences ... The same number back building temporary “Nightingale-style” prisons.
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South Africa: Concerns Over Ineffective Measures to Curb Prison Overcrowding
All Africa 28 Jul 2025
The Portfolio Committee on Correctional Services has expressed concern over the low success rate of the current legislation aimed at reducing overcrowding in the country's correctional facilities ....
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Offenders Compulsory Attendance Order To Reduce Prison Overcrowding - Shamsul Anuar
Malaysian National News Agency 28 Jul 2025
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Offenders compulsory attendance order to reduce prison overcrowding, says Shamsul Anuar
The Star 28 Jul 2025
The Offenders Compulsory Attendance (Amendment) Bill ...
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Prison overcrowding crisis raises alarm with 57,000 remand detainees
Independent online (SA) 26 Jul 2025
The Department of Correctional Services has revealed that it has a staggering population of 57, 000 remand detainees while prisons are bursting at the seams with an overcrowding of 163, 000 prisoners.
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House arrest law can ease prison overcrowding, says Saifuddin
The Star 24 Jul 2025
KUALA LUMPUR. The government is mulling house arrest – which includes the use of electronic monitoring devices – for remand detainees to address overcrowding in prisons, says Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail. Read full story ... .
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Cyprus Ministry of Justice Prioritizes Prison Overcrowding Amid Council of Europe Report
Famagusta Gazette 21 Jul 2025
FAMAGUSTA GAZETTE – Prison conditions and chronic overcrowding are a top priority for the Ministry of Justice and Public Order, which is working ...
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Ministry of Justice says it is taking measures to address prison overcrowding
CNA 21 Jul 2025
... and upgrade the penitentiary work of the Prison Department.
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Fraud offenses driving prison overcrowding: official
Taipei Times 23 Jun 2025
Taiwan’s prisons are overcrowded, with some facilities operating beyond capacity due to a rise in the number of inmates, particularly for fraud-related offenses, Agency of Corrections Director Chou Hui-huang (周輝煌) said yesterday.
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Program director says prison overcrowding, staffing shortage persist
Guam Pacific Daily News 13 Jun 2025
Sarah Thomas-Nededog, a program director with the Department of Corrections, talks about prison overcrowding at both DOC’s adult correctional facility in Mangilao and the detention facility in ...
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Peru extends deadline to address prison overcrowding by five years
Jurist 30 May 2025
The Constitutional Court of Peru (TC) approved on Wednesday a five-year extension for reducing overcrowding of the nation’s prisons ... The 2020 TC ruling that if overcrowding persisted, prisons ...
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