The rationale given for allowing home detention for some prisoners is to ease overcrowding in jails.
The matter of allowing non-serious offenders to serve their prison sentence from home was unlikely to have been on the minds of Malaysians until last month.
On March 2, Minister of Home Affairs Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution said that the government had in principle agreed to implement the Licensed Release of Prisoners (PBSL) for offenders who are considered less dangerous and have four years or less of their sentence remaining.
