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UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has committed to building 14,000 new prison places by 2031, marking the country's most ambitious incarceration infrastructure project since the 1800s. The initiative seeks to resolve systemic overcrowding.
MPs may be permitted to view CCTV recordings from the Taiping prison riot, though the Deputy Law Minister says Cabinet approval is prerequisite, with ongoing court proceedings complicating the matter.
Malaysia's Parliament has received the Prisons Amendment Bill 2026, introducing electronic monitoring devices for inmates and a new volunteer-based rehabilitation framework to modernise the country's corrections system.