How many prisons are there in Malaysia?

World Prisons indexes 57 individual facilities in Malaysia. Each entry links to a detail page with contact information, capacity, oversight reports, and known conditions.

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Malaysia

Q: Does Malaysia have the death penalty?

Malaysia's death-penalty status is: retentionist. Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

Stub confidence

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Compare Malaysia

Data is aggregated from public sources and may be incomplete or out of date. Always verify with primary sources before acting on any figure. See data sources.

Prison population

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Sentenced + remand

Rate per 100,000

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Per 100,000 residents

Occupancy

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At or under capacity

Pre-trial / remand

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Share not yet sentenced

Female prisoners

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Foreign nationals

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Figures from official sources · methodology

Conditions risk — across 57 facilities

Average of our computed Conditions Risk Score across the country's facilities. Methodology · Browse highest-risk

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national average

57 unknown

retentionist on capital punishment. Last known execution: 2017.Methods: hangingICCPR-OP2 (death-penalty abolition protocol): not a signatory

Seeded from Amnesty International 2024 categorisation + Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide.

Source: Amnesty International + Cornell Death Penalty Worldwide.

Prison population over time

Medium

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Kamunting Detention Center

Malaysia

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Capacity

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Held

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Kompleks Penjara Bentong

Malaysia · Bentong

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Capacity

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Held

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Kompleks Penjara Kluang

Malaysia

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Capacity

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Held

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Kompleks Penjara Kota Kinabalu

Malaysia

Type

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Capacity

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Held

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Kompleks Penjara Pokok Sena

Malaysia

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Capacity

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Held

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Kompleks Penjara Seberang Perai

Malaysia

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Capacity

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Held

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Kompleks Penjara Sungai Udang Melaka

Malaysia

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Capacity

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Held

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Kompleks Tahanan PDRM Indera Mahkota

Malaysia

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Capacity

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Held

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Kuching Central Prison

Malaysia

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Capacity

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Held

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See all 57 prisons in Malaysia →

Data completeness

10%

Score based on how many fields are populated. We surface this so you know where the gaps are.

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Sources

Direct citations for the figures on this page.

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ISO 3166-1 alpha-3: MYS

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APA

World Prisons. (2026). Malaysia — prison statistics. Retrieved July 20, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/countries/malaysia

Chicago

"Malaysia — prison statistics." World Prisons. Accessed July 20, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/countries/malaysia.

BibTeX

@misc{worldprisons-malaysia,
  author = {{World Prisons}},
  title = {Malaysia — prison statistics},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://worldprisons.com/countries/malaysia},
  urldate = {2026-07-20}
}