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Malaysian prisons vastly overcrowded even before MCO arrests
Malaysians prisons have been vastly overcrowded even before the implementation of the Movement Control Order (MCO), said a Prisons Department spokesperson.
The spokesperson revealed that there are currently 73,000 prisoners being housed in spaces intended to hold 52,000 inmates.
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