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MAY 31 — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, the famous Russian author, once said that “the degree of civilisation in a society is revealed by entering its prisons.” As Malaysia has always claimed that we are a civilised society, we must therefore do more for the people in our prisons. In this...
Inmates enjoy ‘liquor’ and hookah inside central jail LUDHIANA: A video of gangster Manwinder Singh, alias Nikka Jattana, along with other jail inmates, lodged in Ludhiana Central Jail, has surfaced in which they are seen allegedly having liquor and smoking hookah. In the background, the inmates could be seen having fun while music is being played on the LED TV screen. When the TOI contacted the local jail officials, they claimed that they did not receive any video. However, on the basis of some picture, which they had received, they had conducted a search operation in the jail and recov...
the punitive excess that has come to define America’s criminal legal system. Our penchant for punitive sentencing goes back beyond the Constitution or the Pilgrims or even British common law. It goes back further than the Magna Carta or the Code of Hammurabi or the Talmud, back to the dawn of human history, when small groups of people adopted concepts of culpability and punishment as a matter of basic survival. Our ancient ancestors shamed and weeded out the rule-breakers among them, sometimes with leniency, usually in harsh ways, to protect the integrity and the unity of their tribe. A...
Vanguard News Reps’ C’mte to probe prison breaks nationwide On By Levinus Nwabughiogu-Abuja House of Representative at Thursday plenary mandated its committee on Reformatory and Correctional Institutions to investigate the incidences of prisons breaks across the country. The House also urged the Controller of General of Corrections to immediately reinforce the armed Squad of the Service as part of measures to prevent reoccurrence. The parliament also called for effective collaboration between the Federal and State Governments to tackle threats to the facilities and particularly beef up s...
Axed prisons boss Silas Motlalekgosi invited us into his home last week. Earlier this month, Motlalekgosi was retired as head of the Botswana Prisons Service (BPS), made to leave a position he held since 2009 when he was appointed by the then President, Ian Khama. A former Botswana Defence Force (BDF) officer, this is Motlalekgosi’s story; it is a tale he plans to document in a tell-all autobiography soon. Let’s journey back to 2009 and your appointment to the top post in the Botswana Prisons Service. It was very interesting when I entered the prison service, quite a dramatic entry and as...