“We strongly believe that each inmate has a chance to rehabilitation if we give them that chance.
Part of the rehabilitation programme includes giving courses on cooking, baking, sewing, weaving, driving busses and operating heavy machinery. At the end of the programme, we will give them a certificate of completion, and this certificate can be used to find jobs outside. If they have jobs after being released, hopefully they won’t commit crime like stealing and robbery to earn a living.
Some of the inmates are lazy to take these classes, as they view it as tiring and wasting time. We have to force them to commit to these classes. Otherwise, its so easy for them to reoffend once being released. I have seen it happen so many times, prisoners coming in and out of jail because they don’t have a purpose once they leave. We try our best to provide them with that purpose.”
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Captured at the “Beauty Behind the Wall” programme, a CSR initiative by KDYTM Tengku Puan Pahang Tunku Hajah Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah and Resorts World Genting, aimed to equip female inmates of Bentong Prison with culinary skills.
Photostory by Amalina Davis
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(This post was first published on December 4th 2018)
