Publication date: 04/08/2015

Prisons are places meant to reform and rehabilitate its inmates. They are known as Correctional Institutions in the Kingdom.

ALQST have been receiving reports from Saudi prisoners and their families, and even prison guards, hospital staff and people working in the Saudi courts and prosecution service, that Saudi Arabia’s these prisons are severely overcrowded, rife with disease, crime, harassment – and more importantly..drugs.

 

 

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