PETALING JAYA: On the one hand, there are companies desperate for workers; and on the other, people happy to prove they are hard workers who want to turn their lives around.
It seems a match made in heaven – plugging the labour shortage while leaving a path for former inmates to get back into society.
“Even if they go on leave, it would just be several days or a week at most as their hometowns are all within the country, unlike foreign workers who may be away for a month,” he said. “Increased productivity also helps boost our national economy,” he said, adding that any engagement with the Prisons Department on this would be welcome.
Mohammad Rizan also noted how prisons produced various goods such as food, furniture, clothing and even agricultural products – all made by inmates. “From not having a place to stay to being shunned for job openings, it is as if the punishment of these individuals continues despite having already served their sentences for their offences.
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