Bahrain Mirror: Bahrain's Interior Ministry has called on the House of Representatives to participate in developing a national project to recruit and train those released under the Alternative Penal Code. 

In an intervention in the House of Representatives (December 1, 2021), Undersecretary Nasser bin Abdulrahman Al Khalifa called for changing the alternative penalty project to a national project involving private sector and NGOs and not to sufficed with the efforts of the Ministry of Interior, and that the project includes the recruitment and training of these people.

The future challenge would be to take this project from the Ministry of Interior to other government and private institutions, and to involve everyone.

He said that 3,686 prisoners have so far benefited from the Alternative Penal Code, while 369 had failed to abide by its requirements, through failure to comply with the specified times, attempt to remove the tracker or committing another crime.

He also confirmed that 869 convicts are still applying the alternative penalty, adding that 1,442 convicts have had their sentences abolished because they had fully passed the alternative sentence period. 

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