CSI impacts rehabilitation of parolees positively
SIBU: The Corporate Smart Internship (CSI) has huge impact on the rehabilitation of people on parole ( ODP), Home Ministry’s Secretary-General Datuk Seri Alwi Ibrahim said yesterday.
CSI is a rehabilitation programme outside the prison that involves cooperation with the private sector.
According to Alwi there are 44 private companies in 12 states, involving 2,005 ODP undergoing CSI prog ramme sinc e it s implementation in 2016.
“This programme has been proven successful with a company in Sungai Petani involving 35 people under supervision,” he said when officiating at Malaysian Prisons Department’s Excellence Service Award (APC) 2018 for Sarawak zone here
Also present at the event were Malaysian Prison Department director-general Datuk Seri Zulkifli Omar, Prisons head quarters financial director Mohammad Abiddin Abdul Rahman, human resources and administration director Nor Kamisah Che Daud, Sarawak Prisons Department director Ajidin Salleh and Sibu Prisons director Azhar Ahmad.
Alwi also mentioned that Malaysian Prison Department is ready to take up the challenge of reformation implementation involving upgrading in detention, compliance, standard of treatment, rehabilitation, staff training, correctional facility and reintegration.
“Inmates will be treated with dignity, their equal rights respected, basic needs provided for and their health are always well taken care of in accordance with the law,” he added.
According to Alwi, inmates rehabilitation programmes will be strengthened by training more instructors, increasing inmates learning classes and ensuring suitabi lity of rehabilitation programmes based on imprisonment term.
Staff professionalism will be improved through continuous learning, correctional courses as well as continued efforts to elevate prisons officers and staff scheme to be on par with other uniformed agencies.
He cited Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s recent speech at the 229th Prison Day celebration, where the minister had expressed intention to ensure prisons were equipped with complete and suitable facilities for recreational and sports, health facilities, safety equipment and more systematic building design.
Touching on re- integration, rehabilitation programme in the community will be continuously strengthened to help inmates adapt to the community and be useful citizens upon their release.
Out- of- prison rehabilitation programme with the community on parole system, compulsory attendance order and inmates reintegration programme need to be emphasised and expanded as an alternative programme to overcome problem of congestion in prison.
With about 39,000 prisoners taking part in the programme and with a recidivism rate of 0.5 per cent, the programme will be expanded.