Bucket toilets still in use at pre-war prisons, parliamentary panel finds

Published on 28 Nov 2023 7:20:46 PM

Nearly a quarter of the way into the 21st century, inmates at several prisons in the country are still relying on the bucket toilet system.

This shocking discovery by the Parliamentary Special Select Committee on Human Rights, Elections and Institutional Reforms was contained in its report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday (Nov 28).

Committee chairman William Leong told a press conference in Parliament that the committee recommended that the practice of sharing buckets be stopped immediately, with a separate bucket given to each inmate.

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