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Prey Sar still overcrowded despite two new prisons


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One of Cambodia’s most notorious prisons now houses 6,000 inmates – more than three times its maximum capacity – despite prisoners twice being transferred to a new correctional centre in recent months, a prison official said yesterday.

 

Kim Sarin, deputy general director at the Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons, said overcrowding at Prey Sar prison in Phnom Penh, also known as Correctional Centre 1, forced the department to make two transfers of inmates to a new prison in Pursat province.

 

“The standard capacity is between 1,600 and 1,800 people, but now we contain more than 6,000 people,” Sarin said.

 

read more http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prey-sar-still-overcrowded-despite-two-new-prisons

 

 
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