He fights hard to keep off drugs
December 17, 2012 - 12:39am
By: Shaffiq Alkhatib
TNP PHOTO: Benjamin Seetor
The Singapore Prison Service (SPS) said that about 3,000 long-term offenders are due to be released from this year to 2014 and about half of them have been assessed to have a higher risk of re-offending.
Last month, a new programme was started to help this latter group of hardcore abusers kick the habit.
Known as the enhanced supervision programme, a group of former LT offenders - the initiative’s pioneer batch - are now
taking part in it.
Mr Abu Bakar Harun, 53, who had been in and out of jail for heroin abuse spending some 14 years in all behind bars, gave the programme the thumbs up.
Even though Mr Abu Bakar is not part of the enhanced supervision programme, he said he would have benefited from it.
“Maybe if I had gone through such programmes in the past, I would not have ended up like this,” he said.
Read the full report in The New Paper on Monday (Dec 17).
