Most of them are Filipinos serving sentences for drug offences and Indonesians detained for flouting immigration laws.
TAWAU: Fifty-eight per cent of the 6,500 inmates in the six prisons in Sabah are foreign nationals, said Sabah Prisons director Ab Basir Mohamad.
He said foreign inmates comprise 78% Filipinos, 17% Indonesians and 5% from other countries.
“About 40% of the Filipino inmates are serving sentences for drug offences while most of the Indonesians are detained for immigration offences,” he told reporters after launching an event in Tawau Prison, here today.
Ab Basir said prisons in Sabah were now filled beyond their capacity of 5,500.
“Currently, the prisons in Sabah have exceeded their capacity by 35%.
“In order to reduce congestion in the prisons, recently we transferred 200 Indonesian inmates to prisons in Sarawak and this transfer-of-prisoners programme will continue to be implemented in time to come,” he said.
“We also transferred inmates from Kota Kinabalu Prison to Labuan,” he added.
At the event, he advised all prison officials and personnel not to arbitrarily spread departmental information via social media.
Meanwhile, 77 prison officers and personnel from Tawau Prison received the ‘Perkhidmatan Setia’ and ‘Perkhidmatan Am’ medals.
– BERNAMA
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