Cambodia’s prison population swelled to more than 28,000 inmates last year – well over the system’s capacity – with Interior Minister Sar Kheng suggesting yesterday that the construction of more luxurious pay-to-stay prison blocks for wealthy inmates could help alleviate the severe overcrowding.

 

The Prisons Department yesterday released its annual report, which also showed that the prison population had ballooned by some 30 percent in 2017, to 28,414, with more than 10,000 of the system’s inmates locked up in pre-trial detention – an issue consistently flagged by the United Nation’s human rights body and rights groups.

 

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There is a fatal flaw to this plan...

 

They would have to actually convict rich people and sentence them to jail for it to work.

On 2/21/2018 at 1:42 PM, Sheryl said:

There is a fatal flaw to this plan...

 

They would have to actually convict rich people and sentence them to jail for it to work.

Good thinking...it would probably be filled with foreigners: instead of paying off the prison employees for favors already available, it would be officially sanctioned and the government gets the profit, plus they could buy more living space.