Death toll from Indonesia jail blaze at 44 amid focus on overcrowding | Malay Mail

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JAKARTA, Sept 9 ― The death toll from a blaze that tore through an Indonesian jail has risen to 44, as authorities pledged to look at whether more inmates could receive rehabilitation for drug-related offences to ease chronic overcrowding in the prison system. Yesterday's fire at the penitentiary...

JAKARTA, Sept 9 ― The death toll from a blaze that tore through an Indonesian jail has risen to 44, as authorities pledged to look at whether more inmates could receive rehabilitation for drug-related offences to ease chronic overcrowding in the prison system.

Built for 38 inmates there were 122, mostly imprisoned for drug-related offences, detained at the time of the blaze, which was one of the most deadly in Indonesia in recent years. The ministry said that all the victims of the fire, which police suspect may have been caused by an electrical fault, were inmates.

 

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