Capital and Corporal Punishment
Death sentences were not carried out at the prison. Remand inmates sentenced to death by hanging were sent to the main prison in Kuala Lumpur, the national capital. However, corporal punishment (caning on the bare buttocks) was administered at Johor Bahru Prison on Mondays and Thursdays.
- See Caning in Malaysia
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