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New Straits Times
7 hours ago
- New Straits Times
Over 10,000 offenders rehabilitated through community service from 2008 to 2024
KUCHING: A total of 10,522 cases nationwide were imposed with Community Service Orders (CSOs) from 2008 to 2024, said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri. She said that of the total, 8,125 cases involved young offenders, 2,163 involved child offenders and 234 involved adult offenders. Nancy said the cases involved various offences, with the maximum CSO period imposed being 240 hours. "We've all made mistakes. "The difference is that not everyone is given a second chance, but through CSOs, we provide individuals undergoing them with the opportunity to improve themselves. "CSOs are not just alternative punishments – they serve as a space for recovery. "They help rebuild self-confidence, reshape identity, and provide a second chance to return as better members of society," she said at the Community Service Order awareness programme here today. Nancy said a study conducted by Universiti Utara Malaysia found that CSOs had a positive impact on offenders' attitudes, emotions and social integration. –Bernama
The Sun
12 hours ago
- The Sun
Over 10,000 offenders given second chance via CSOs
KUCHING: A total of 10,522 cases nationwide were imposed with Community Service Orders (CSOs) from 2008 to 2024, said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri. She said that of the total, 8,125 cases involved young offenders, 2,163 involved child offenders and 234 involved adult offenders. Nancy said the cases involved various offences, with the maximum CSO period imposed being 240 hours. 'We've all made mistakes. The difference is that not everyone is given a second chance, but through CSOs, we provide individuals undergoing them with the opportunity to improve themselves. 'CSOs are not just alternative punishments – they serve as a space for recovery. They help rebuild self-confidence, reshape identity, and provide a second chance to return as better members of society,' she said at the Community Service Order awareness programme here today. Nancy said a study conducted by Universiti Utara Malaysia found that CSOs had a positive impact on offenders' attitudes, emotions and social integration.
The Star
12 hours ago
- The Star
More than 10,000 given Community Service Orders from 2008 to 2024, says Nancy Shukri
KUCHING: A total of 10,522 cases nationwide were imposed with Community Service Orders (CSOs) from 2008 to 2024, says Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri. The Women, Family and Community Development Minister said that of the total, 8,125 cases involved young offenders, 2,163 involved child offenders and 234 involved adult offenders. Nancy said the cases involved various offences, with the maximum CSO period imposed being 240 hours. "We've all made mistakes. The difference is that not everyone is given a second chance, but through CSOs, we provide individuals undergoing them with the opportunity to improve themselves. "CSOs are not just alternative punishments - they serve as a space for recovery. They help rebuild self-confidence, reshape identity, and provide a second chance to return as better members of society," she said at the Community Service Order awareness programme here Saturday (June 21). Nancy said a study conducted by Universiti Utara Malaysia found that CSOs had a positive impact on offenders' attitudes, emotions and social integration. - Bernama
The Sun
12 hours ago
- The Sun
Over 10,000 offenders imposed with community service orders from 2008 to 2024
KUCHING: A total of 10,522 cases nationwide were imposed with Community Service Orders (CSOs) from 2008 to 2024, said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Seri Nancy Shukri. She said that of the total, 8,125 cases involved young offenders, 2,163 involved child offenders and 234 involved adult offenders. Nancy said the cases involved various offences, with the maximum CSO period imposed being 240 hours. 'We've all made mistakes. The difference is that not everyone is given a second chance, but through CSOs, we provide individuals undergoing them with the opportunity to improve themselves. 'CSOs are not just alternative punishments – they serve as a space for recovery. They help rebuild self-confidence, reshape identity, and provide a second chance to return as better members of society,' she said at the Community Service Order awareness programme here today. Nancy said a study conducted by Universiti Utara Malaysia found that CSOs had a positive impact on offenders' attitudes, emotions and social integration.
RTÉ News
15-05-2025
- Politics
- RTÉ News
Bunk beds used to tackle prison overcrowding, says minister
Minister for Justice Jim O'Callaghan has revealed that bunk beds are being used to tackle serious overcrowding in prisons. He told the Dáil that "bunk beds are now being purchased and introduced and implemented" where inmates are sleeping on mattreses on the floor. "It's extremely important that the crisis is being addressed," he said during Priority Questions. "It is being addressed." The minister insisted: "This it is a priority for me". He was replying to the Social Democrats justice spokesperson Gary Gannon who said that "over 350 people were reportedly sleeping on floors". The deputy urged that "the appalling and dangerous conditions" in prisons be addressed. "I think that, in many cases, the conditions in our prisons are nothing short of Dickensian," Mr Gannon said, and condemned overcrowding as a "serious failure of our criminal justice infrastructure". He also warned of "a lack of awareness" in the courts of non-custodial sentencing options. Minister O'Callaghan said that a growing population demands more prison spaces, but also promised to "present further options to courts other than simply incarcerating". The minister said he intends to oblige courts to consider community service for sentences of two years. Currently, they must do so for sentences of one year. He also revealed his intention to double the maximum number of hours that can be imposed under a Community Service Order from 240 to 480, something Deputy Gannon welcomed. However, Minister O'Callaghan also said that he would be "frank" with the deputy. "I'm not going to go down the route that they went down in England and Wales in the past nine months," where authorities said that "they were going to release from prison very serious offenders at a very early stage". Deputy Gannon noted that he had made no mention of such a measure, and asked why "an audit and awareness of who exactly are in our prisons" was not being conducted. "What we have at the moment is a conveyor belt of people who, for various reasons, usually linked to addiction, go into our prisons, sleep on floors, continue that addiction, come out of prison, reoffend - because prison is traumatic." The minister said he would "try and bring forward issues in respect of electronic monitoring... particularly in respect of remand prisoners".
