Prisoners rehabilitation time to be deducted from sentences: Minister Ihusaan

Minister of Homeland Security and Technology Ali Ihusaan said today that President Dr Mohamed Muizzu has decided that each day inmates spend participating in rehabilitation programs in prisons will count as a day deducted from their remaining sentence.

Speaking at a special ceremony to inaugurate "Maldivian Cultural Yard" in Maafushi Prison, Minister Ihusaan emphasized that it is inappropriate to view prisoners merely as individuals "kept behind bars." Instead, the government's goal is to reform them into productive and skilled individuals by the time they reintegrate into society.