Will home detention be used to free powerful convicts like Najib, asks NGO
Project Stability and Accountability for Malaysia (Projek Sama) has warned that the introduction of home detention as an alternative to imprisonment “for some prisoners” could be abused to free powerful convicts like ex-premier Najib Abdul Razak.
Hence the institutional reform watchdog urged for a white paper on the topic before its implementation to prevent double standards being applied to prisoners.
Incarceration should be reserved for the unreformable who pose a significant physical threat to society at large such as murderers, paedophiles, rapists, terrorists, robbers, habitual perpetrators of assault. I'd like also to propose that criminals who do not pose a significant physical threat to society be put into public works and sanitation services - basically the work that nobody wants to do.
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