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The Education Ministry will evaluate awarding merit for co-curricular participation by prison school students seeking university admission, alongside skills certification and digital learning access.
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham has announced plans for 14,000 new prison places by 2031, the largest building programme in over a century, aiming to resolve chronic overcrowding in the British penal system.
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The Malaysian government is considering a proposal to grant Members of Parliament access to CCTV footage from the Taiping Prison incident that resulted in an inmate's death, to strengthen parliamentary oversight.