One of the 12 boys rescued from a flooded cave in Chiang Rai in 2018 committed suicide while at school in the UK, BBC News said citing a coroner report.
PETALING JAYA: Prison overcrowding can be avoided if first-time and light offenders such as drug addicts are sent for community-based correctional programmes instead of being incarcerated, says one expert.
“Non-serious, non-violent and first-time offenders need not be sent to prison but should be subjected to community-based correctional programmes,” he told The Star. While Sundramoorthy agreed that drug traffickers should be dealt with severely, he said users should be rehabilitated within the community or outside the prison system.
“Punitive philosophy should be the last resort when dealing with drug users as it is not effective and also leads to overcrowding of prisons,” he said, adding that there should also be an efficient probation system that is separate from the prison system.
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